Question

I have the following code to create a form in my app:

<?php echo $this->Form->create('User', array('action'=>'edit')); ?>

and it has a route like:

Router::connect('/settings', array('controller'=>'users','action'=>'edit'));

However the action is wrong…

<form action="/users/edit/6" method="post" accept-charset="utf-8">

If I put the form to defaults with:

<?php echo $this->Form->create(); ?>

then it fixes the routing issue, but why does specifying parameters break the routing???

Answer 1

When you specify in the create() parameters an actual URL – it will map to that url! The routes config doesn’t map backwards. For example – if you visit /settings, it will load /edit page with the url still showing /settings. But if you visit /edit, it will show the url and will load the page /edit.

So if you want your form action to map to /settings, don’t specify a url or use the url option array('url' => '/settings')