Question

I am trying to write a plugin for CakePHP (CakePHP 2.2.3) called LinkElement which takes makes it possible to get a url and hand back a rendered element. My example uses an Ajax tabs table (if there are better ways to do this please say). I cannot get it to load from a URL.

Example:

localhost/LinkElement/Links/

throws:

Error: LinkElementController could not be found.

Error: Create the class LinkElementController below in file: app\Controller\LinkElementController.php

<?php
class LinkElementController extends AppController { }

My layout is as follows:

/app
    /Plugin
        /LinkElement
            /Controller
                LinkElementAppController.php
                LinksController.php
            /Model
                LinkElementAppModel.php
            /View
                Links/
                    index.ctp

LinkElementAppController.php

<?php class LinkElementAppController extends AppController { }

LinksController.php

<?php App::uses('LinkElementAppController', 'LinkElement.Controller');

class LinksController extends LinkElementAppController {}

LinkElementAppModel.php

<?php class LinkElementAppModel extends AppModel {}

Links/index.ctp (just a dummy until I can get the URL working)

<h2>Working</h2>

Also routes.php

CakePlugin::routes();
CakePlugin::load(array('LinkElement'));

I realise that this is probably simple, but I cannot see it right now and looking at other answers is not helping.

Answer 1

You shouldn’t ever be using caps in URLs. 🙂

The Cake way to access controllers in plugins is to use underscore notation:

/plugin_name/controller_name/action

So in your case:

localhost/link_element/links/<action>

ref: http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/plugins.html#plugin-tips