Question

I am working on cakephp project. I have removed index.php from URL using .htaccess file and now I want to remove view name from URL & add some other two varying parameter. Suppose I choose country & city then these two parameter should appear in URL on selecting them.

The problem I am facing is as cakephp takes

www.example.com/Controllername/viewname

But my requirement is like this

www.example.com/Controllername/param1/param2

If I pass this way It looks for param1 as controller and param2 as view.

Initially should be like:

www.example.com/Controllername/

Answer 1

In your APP/routes.php:

// www.example/com/Controllername
Router::connect('/Controllername', 
    array('controller'=>'Controllername', 'action'=>'index'));

// www.example.com/Controllername/param1/param2
Router::connect('/Controllername/:param1/:param2',
    array('controller'=>'Controllername', 'action'=>'index'), 
    array('pass' => array('param1', 'param2')));

and your controller:

// set to null/a value to prevent missing parameter errors
public function index($param1=null, $param2=null) {
   //echo $param1 . ' and ' . $param2;
}

When generating links:

array('controller'=>'Controllername', 'action'=>'index', 'param1'=>'foo', 'param2'=>'bar');

Order matters. Change paramX to anything you want i.e. country and town

note this does not cover: controllername/param1 – both must be present in this example.

There are other ways to achieve this.