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Please help me understand URL and Routes in Cake
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From: "John" <johnsv...@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: Please help me understand URL and Routes in Cake
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:13:58 -0800
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> So, I'd like to have the following URLs
> /units - for a view showing a table of multiple units
> /units/<unit name> - for a view of the single unit (no, I don't
> want to use the action in the URL like /units/view/<unit name>, I'd
> like to keep this one as short and simple as possible)
I wanted to do something similar, but rather than using routes I put a
condition in the beforeFilter of a controller. The controller is
called galleries, I wanted to keep the actions like index, view,
detail, etc. So I could have /galleries/view/<gallery id> but also to
have /galleries/<region name>
Anyway I've got the following in my controller
var $regions = array('london', 'south_west', 'north', 'south_east',
'central', 'wales', 'scotland', 'northern_ireland');
function beforeFilter()
{
if(in_array($this->action, $this->regions))
{
$this->region();
exit;
}
}
So if the is a URL like /galleries/london it will route to the the
action region() in the controller.
It works well, but I was wondering if there are better solutions?
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