Question

I have a controller in my CakePHP app called ‘Profiles’, and this is what my action called index is:

function index($id = NULL) {
    $this->set('profile', $this->Profile->findById($id));
}

So using this method to pass in the id, I can then return the correct profile depending on the id that is in the link.

This works fine when I do this on an action called view, however when I try to do it on the index action it treats my id as if it were an action, and returns an error saying that the action doesn’t exist. Is there a way to pass in the id on the index action in CakePHP, or does it have to be on an action besides the index such as a view action?

Cheers,

Adam.

Answer 1

If you want to pass an id to your method you have to visit a url with an id in it.

/profiles/index/<id_here>

Cake will load /profiles as /profiles/index magically. You can not use /profiles/<id> out the box, that would require a new Route before it would work.