Question

I am working on one small project – web site. There are gallery, user login, shop and many small text sections – with images and without.
I want to make pretty urls for example:

Gallery -> /eng/gallery (GalleryController::index)
Gallery album /eng/gallery/album_name_slug (GalleryController::view)
Shop -> /eng/products (ProductsController::index)
Shop one product -> /eng/products/product_name_slug (ProductsController::view)

and all other (text) pages goes to “PagesController”, but without /pages/view prefix

Contacts -> /eng/contacts
About us -> /eng/about_us

I thought that I can make something like this:

// Homepage
Router::connect('/', array('controller' => 'homepage', 'action' => 'display'));

/* There delegate routes for each controller/method (gallery, shop, etc) */

// All what is not in thease controllers/methods goes to pagescontroller
Router::connect('/*', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' => 'view'));

What is the best way to make it in routes.php? Maybe you can give some generic example?

Thanks!

Answer 1

For Gallery -> /eng/gallery (GalleryController::index) :

Router::connect('/eng/gallery', 
    array('controller' => 'gallery', 'action' => 'index'));

For Gallery album /eng/gallery/album_name_slug (GalleryController::view) :

Router::connect('/eng/gallery/:album', 
    array('controller' => 'gallery', 'action' => 'view'), 
    array('pass' => array('album'),'album' => '[0-9a-zA-Z]+') 
); 

repeat for Products controller