Re: routes.php - getting missing controller issue

Hey Leaf,

We've done a lot of rewriting with our sites and mainly with
http://theeasyapi.com, and http://www.countycriminal.com. One thing
that I have found is that you must always use the controller name in
the URL even when you are rewriting which controller picks it up.

In your example I would use instead of /hp/12345 I would use /users/
12345 ... try that and see if you get a valid result. Like I said I
know it's not the best approach as you obviously want to have /hp/ = /
homepage/ but sometimes there are just a few things that just don't
work in cake for some reason.

The other thing you COULD do is a custom modification in
your .htaccess. Change your routes to look for /homepage/ but then in
your .htaccess put a rewrite rule in there to convert /hp/ to /
homepage/ so the URL at the top stays the same but it does pass in /
homepage/ instead. Keeps the same look and feel but does break the
"cakeified" mentality.

It's up to you and check out http://theeasyapi.com you can see a live
site where we rewrite URL's and do a lot of really interesting things
with our routes file.

Have a wonderful day,
Chad

On Jan 26, 5:43 am, leafchild <leafchild.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
> circket, thank you for the replay.
>
> actually i set to 'id'=>'[0-9a-zA-Z]+' in the beginning but make it
> simple since nothing was working for me.
>
> code below gives me a "Missing controller error" it say I don't have a
> Hp Controller
> =================================================
> Router::connect('/hp/:id/', array(
>              'controller' => 'users',
>                  'action' => 'homepage',
>                  ), array(
>                         'id'=>'[0-9a-zA-Z]', 'pass'=>'id'
>         ));
> =================================================
>
> then if i have this code then it bring  to home page
> =================================================
> Router::connect('/hp/:id/', array(
>              'controller' => 'users',
>                  'action' => 'homepage',
>                  ), array(
>                         'id'=>'[0-9a-zA-Z]+', 'pass'=>'id'
>         ));
> =================================================
>
> What am I missing?
>
> On Jan 25, 5:08 pm, cricket <zijn.digi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > What does the error msg say? That UsersController is missing, or
> > something else?
>
> > Are your usernames limited to lowercase letters only and no digits?
>
> > And you might want to pass the ID to your action:
>
> > Router::connect(
> >     '/hp/:id/',
> >     array('controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'homepage'),
> >     array('id'=>'[a-z]', 'pass' => 'id')
> > );
>
> > On Jan 25, 5:19 pm, leafchild <leafchild.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > I'm tring to fix URL
>
> > >www.mysite.com/users/homepage/{user's login name}
> > > ->www.mysite.com/{user's login name}
>
> > > but I couldn't figure it out so I'm tesing with this firstwww.mysite.com/users/homepage/{user's login name}
> > > ->www.mysite.com/hp/{user's login name}
>
> > > Router::connect('/hp/:id/', array( 'controller' => 'users',  'action'
> > > => 'homepage', ),
> > >                               array('id'=>'[a-z]',  )
> > >                        );
>
> > > then when I access, mysite.com/hp/{user's login name}, I'm getting a
> > > missing controller error.
>
> > > What I'm I doing wrong? I was expected to see the page with this URL.

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