Question

Please bear with me as I am a cakephp noob. I have this app that should go to http://www.name.com/complexes/somecomplex/unitnumber. I can correctly get it to advance to http://www.name.com/complexes/somecomplex, but I don’t know how to get the full path to my unit number.

Here is my controller:

class ComplexesController extends AppController {
    public $name='Complexes';
    public $uses=array('User', 'Complex', 'Unit');
    public $layout='pagelayout';



    public function view() { 
    $this->set('complex', strtoupper($this->params['id']));
    $c=$this->Complex->find('first', array('conditions'=>array('complex_name'=>$this->params['id'])));
    $this->set('complex_data', $c);
}

}

and here is my route

Router::connect('/complexes/:id', array('controller' => 'complexes', 'action' => 'view'));

Where do I write the action for calling up a specific unit? Inside my ‘view’ action or another action called ‘unit’? And how do i tell cake to route to that?

Answer 1

I figured it out! I had to pass an argument, called $unit in my view() function, where I set the conditions to look for the unitnumber that I had entered in the url ($unit). so, my code ended up looking like this:

public function view($unit=null) { 
    $this->set('complex', strtoupper($this->params['id']));
    $c=$this->Complex->find('first', array('conditions'=>array('complex_name'=>$this->params['id'])));
    $this->set('complex_data', $c);
    $u=$this->Unit->find('first', array('conditions'=>array('unitnum'=>$unit)));
    $this->set('unit', $u);
}

and in my routes file I added this line:

Router::connect('/complexes/:id/*', array('controller' => 'complexes', 'action' => 'view'));

And it worked!