Question

I have such a structure:

• example.com / MyController / index / MyGoodPage / maximum/
• example.com / MyController / index / MyBestPage / optimum/
• example.com / MyController / index / MyFancyPage / lowprice/

But I don’t want my visitors to see “index” word, because it doesn’t give any more information to him/her. I need my URLs like this:

• example.com / MyController / MyGoodPage / maximum/
• example.com / MyController / MyBestPage / optimum/
• example.com / MyController / MyFancyPage / lowprice/

But to do thisin default Cake-way, I need to create seperate hundereds of actions to handle my situation. I don’t want to create them all actions, I need to create one action and then show relevant content regarding to request->params['pass'].

Is it possible?

Answer 1

This is a job for Routing: http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/development/routing.html
and this is actually what is done by default for the core PagesController’s display method:

Router::connect('/pages/*', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' => 'display'));

You could do the same for your controller

Router::connect('/controller_name/*', array('controller' => 'controller_name', 'action' => 'index'));