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s7anley
s7anley

Reputation: 2498

Dynamic routing in CakePHP

I'm trying to set dynamic routes for small CMS. Is there proper way how to do it? I founded somewhere this soliution, but honestly I'm not satisfied with it. CMS have other content types so define this for every model does't seem right to me.

$productsModel = ClassRegistry::init('Product');
$products = $productsModel->find('all');    
foreach($products as $product){
  Router::connect('/produkty/:id/'.$product['Product']['url'], array('controller' => 'products', 'action' => 'view',$product['Product']['id']));
}

Thanks for any help!

Upvotes: 3

Views: 5702

Answers (2)

Bil
Bil

Reputation: 543

Yop,

You don't need to define route for each entry in your model DB. Routes ARE dynamics. There are many ways to define routes but the easier is to pass args to action like they comes.

routes.php 

Router::connect('/produkty/*', array('controller' => 'products', 'action' => 'view'));

products_controller.php

class ProductsController extends AppController{
    public function view($id){
         //do anything you want with your product id
    }
}

You can also use named args

routes.php 

Router::connect('/produkty/:id/*', array('controller' => 'products', 'action' => 'view'), array('id' => '[0-9]+'));

products_controller.php

class ProductsController extends AppController{
    public function view(){
         //named args can be find at $this->params['named']
         $productId = $this->params['named']['id'];
    }
}

Upvotes: 2

Tyler
Tyler

Reputation: 2126

No need to do anything complex :)

In routes.php:

Router::connect('/produkty/*', array('controller'=>'products', 'action'=>'view'));

In products_controller.php:

function view($url = null) {
    $product = $this->Product->find('first', array('conditions'=>array('Product.url' => $url)));
    ...
}

Upvotes: 2

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