Question

I’m trying to configure my custom routes in cakephp such that the url

/objects/id/action => ObjectsController.action() with params[‘id’]=id

(This is so that I don’t have to have urls like /objects/action/id which logically make less sense to me than objects/id/action).

I still want /objects/action to trigger ObjectsController.action() (e.g. for add, index, search).

My routes config looks like this:

Router::connect('/:controller/:id',
    array('action'=>'view'),
    array(
        ':id'       =>  '^[0-9]+$'
    )
);
Router::connect('/:controller/:id/:action/*',
    array('action'=>'view'),
    array(
        ':id'       =>  '^[0-9]+$',
        ':action'   =>  '[A-Za-z0-9_\-]*'
    )
);

This works with (for example):

• /objects/54
• /objects/54/edit
• /objects/add

But not with

• /objects/index/page:2

For which it gives me the error that I need to define the action “page:2” in ObjectsController… Surely it should work, because :id should only match digits, no?

Answer 1

Try to remove “:” from second param:

'id'       =>  '^[0-9]+$'

Also see ‘pass’ option.

@see google on “cakephp routes”:

• http://book.cakephp.org/view/945/Routes-Configuration