Question

In my app i record all page views in the database, something like this in AppController:

$this->Link->save(array(
    'controller' => $this->request->params['controller'],
    'action' => $this->request->params['action'],
    'var1' => $this->request->params['pass'][0],
    'var2' => $this->request->params['pass'][1]
));

which works fine, but some of the URLs people (or bots) type in are 404s. How can i check to see if these links are real or not.

Lots of requests i get are from previous websites on the same domain, requests to /images etc that Cake thinks is a controller.

I don’t mind if the check happens before entering into the database or after being retrieved from the database in a view.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Haven’t tried this myself, but you can try calling Router::parse()

You provide the full URL, and the return value will be cake’s route array where you can see the values of controller, action etc.