Question

I am trying to implement routing in cakephp. I want the urls to mapped like this…

http://www.example.com/nodes/main -> http://www.example.com/main
http://www.example.com/nodes/about -> http://www.example.com/about

So for this I wrote in my config/routes.php file..

Router::connect('/:action', array('controller' => 'nodes'));

Now, I got the thing going but when I click on the links, the url in browser appears like
http://www.example.com/nodes/main
http://www.example.com/nodes/about

Is there some way where I can get the urls to appear the way they are routed?
Setting in .htaccess or httpd.conf would be easy – but I don’t have access to that.

Regards
Vikram

Answer 1

This should work:

Router::connect('/main', array('controller' => 'nodes', 'action' => 'main'));
Router::connect('/about', array('controller' => 'nodes', 'action' => 'about'));

You may also do something more powerful, like this:

$actions = array('main','about');
foreach ($actions as $action){
   Router::connect('/$action', array('controller' => 'nodes', 'action' => '$action'));
}