Question

Currently I’m developing an application with CakePHP and I want to change links. In default operation links works like:

website.com/controller/method/argument-what-we-want

because of MVC structure but, I want to change this link and I want to make appear links like:

website.com/shows/walking-dead

What am I have to do to make links something like that?

Answer 1

You could either call your controller shows and your action walking-dead, Or you can add a new route in routes.php

Router::connect('/shows/walking-dead', array('controller' => 'controller', 'action' => 'method', 'argument-what-we-want'));

The first paremeter in connect() even supports wild cards (*)

EDIT

If at the moment your URLs look like /shows/view/walking-dead

You can add a new route like:

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

Which will let you use this URL: /shows/walking-dead