Re: Tricky Routing Problem

I don't see any simple way of doing this, sorry :( Got a few
suggestions though

** If you can guarantee that all of your product slugs will have at
least one hyphen then you can do this:

Router::connect('/products/([a-z0-9_](-[a-z0-9_])+)/([0-9]+)' =>
array(...)

Because actions can't have hyphens in them, for obvious reasons.

** If the other actions will be hidden from the vast majority of
users, it might make sense to create a totally different prefix:

Router::connect('/catalogue/*/([0-9].*)', array('controller' =>
'products', 'action' => 'view'));

This will make /catalogue/this-is-a-product/101 work, and will not
affect product actions because they'll be accessed through /
products/../...

** If you reverse the order of the slug and id then you'll be fine,
because actions can't be all numeric:

Router::connect('/products/([0-9]+)/*' => array('controller' =>
'products', 'action' => 'view'))

(This will make /products/101/this-is-a-product work fine)

** If all that fails, you could re-dispatch in your view action:

function view($slug, $id = null) {
if (method_exists($this, $slug) && $slug[0] != '_') {
$args = func_get_args();
return $this->dispatchMethod('setAction', $args);
}
// .. Handle view action normally
}

Although this might well mess up any beforeFilter() callbacks and
whatnot. Experimentation is needed...

hth
grigri

On Sep 16, 6:48 am, benko <mike.benkov...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Guys,
>
> I am creating a new system with a large collection of products. The
> URLs currently work like this
>
> /products/view/this-is-a-product/101
>
> Everything works fine but I would like the URLs to be of the form:
>
> /products/this-is-a-product/101
>
> I have added this to the Router:
>
> Router::connect('/products/*/([0-9].*)', array('controller' =>
> 'products', 'action' => 'view'));
>
> This works just fine but the issue is I have several other actions in
> the products controller and all these are being caught by the * in the
> route. So things like /products/add/101 are being routed to the view
> action.
>
> Does anyone know of a way to fix this without explicitly excluding all
> of my current actions. Id like to be able to add new actions to my
> controller without having to change the routing.
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.
> Long Live CakePHP :)
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