Re: RSS without extension

A bit more info. RequestHandler is loaded in AppController.
PostsController::index() has:

public function index()
{
$this->pageTitle = 'Blog';

if($this->RequestHandler->isRss())
{
$posts = $this->Post->find(
'all',
array(
'limit' => 20,
'order' => 'Post.created DESC'
)
);
}
else
{
...
}
}

Router::parseExtensions('rss');
Router::connect(
'/blog/feed',
array('controller' => 'posts', 'action' => 'index', 'url' =>
array('ext' => 'rss'))
);

With this, I get the normal index view, whether I include the 'url'
param or not.

Mark Storey has a page[1] up where he says that parseExtensions() must
not be present if using 'url' param. So, I tried commenting that out
and it worked. Problem solved.

But I found some really strange things happening if I'm logged in as
an admin. I get this error:

Error: The layout file /var/www/vhosts/mim/app/views/layouts/rss/
admin.ctp can not be found or does not exist.
Error: Confirm you have created the file: /var/www/vhosts/mim/app/
views/layouts/rss/admin.ctp

When I change the route to:

Router::connect(
'/blog/feed',
array('controller' => 'posts', 'action' => 'index', 'admin' => 0,
'url' => array('ext' => 'rss'))
);

Error: The view for PostsController::admin_index() was not found.
Error: Confirm you have created the file: /var/www/vhosts/mim/app/
views/posts/rss/admin_index.ctp

The view at app/views/posts/rss/index.ctp exists.
The layout at app/views/layouts/rss/default.ctp exists.

And I only see this if I have debug = 2. When set to 0 I'd be
redirected to the regular index action. I placed a die('wtf?'); line
in every place where there's a redirect to index with no luck. I then
placed it in the else block inside index action. Still nothing. So
then I did this:

if($this->RequestHandler->isRss())
{
die('wtf?');

Bang! Cake quits and FF prompts me to either open or save feed (RSS
file). So, it's not that I was being redirected but that the incorrect
view is being rendered. So I tried $this->viewPath = 'posts/rss';
without luck. I then did $this->render('rss/index'); and get a message
saying that posts/rss/rss/index.ctp can't be found. Aaarrgghh! What
the flippity-frig is happening here?

Side note: I had debug disabled because router.php throws an array to
string conversion notice. It's due to the 'url' param in the route.
This is maddening!

$html->link(
$html->image('feed.png', array('width' => 14, 'height' => 14)),
array('controller' => 'posts', 'action' => 'index', 'url' =>
array('ext' => 'rss')),
array('id' => 'rss_feed', 'escape' => false)
)

[1] http://mark-story.com/posts/view/fancy-routing-examples-with-cakephp-1-2

On Feb 22, 12:23 am, cricket <zijn.digi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to set up RSS for my PostsController and I'd like to have
> extensionless URLs.Instead of using /blog/index.rss (which works, btw)
> I'd like to use /blog/feed for the RSS URL. I can't figure out why
> this isn't working:
>
> Router::parseExtensions('rss');
> Router::connect(
>         '/blog/feed',
>         array('controller' => 'posts', 'action' => 'index', 'url' =>
> array('ext' => 'rss'))
> );
>
> Router::connect(
>         '/blog/*',
>         array('controller' => 'posts')
> );
>
> Any ideas?

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