Re: Reverse routing - not using the intended rule

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 9:23 AM, r4zv4n <razvanbrates@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm on CakePHP 1.3 stable and have a routing problem for which I
> haven't been able to figure a solution out (read through the docs,
> googled for it, searched the group).
>
> What I'm trying to achieve is have all pages referred to as site.com/
> page-slug - except for some cases (such as product categories,
> products, etc.). The problem is that reverse routing uses the site.com/
> pages/view/page-slug instead.
>
> The current rules I have are:
>
> Router::connect('/lolot', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' =>
> 'index', 'admin' => true));
>  Router::connect('/pages/menu_threaded', array('controller' =>
> 'pages', 'action' => 'menu_threaded'));
>  Router::connect('/products/display_by_category', array('controller'
> => 'products', 'action' => 'display_by_category'));
>  Router::connect('/products/display_by_brand', array('controller' =>
> 'products', 'action' => 'display_by_brand'));
>  Router::connect('/produse', array('controller' => 'categories',
> 'action' => 'index'));
>  Router::connect('/produse/*', array('controller' => 'categories',
> 'action' => 'view'));
>  Router::connect('/produs/:brand--:product', array('controller' =>
> 'products', 'action' => 'view'), array('pass' => array('brand',
> 'product'), 'brand' => '[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+', 'product' => '[a-zA-Z0-9\-
> \.]+'));
>  Router::connect('/marci', array('controller' => 'brands', 'action'
> => 'index'));
>  Router::connect('/marci/*', array('controller' => 'brands', 'action'
> => 'view'));
>  //Router::connect('/(?!lolot|users|pages|products|produse|produse|
> marci)(.*)', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' => 'view'));
>  //Router::connect('/*', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' =>
> 'view'));
>  Router::connect('/:page', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' =>
> 'view'), array('pass' => array('page'), 'page' => '[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]
> +'));
>  Router::connect('/', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' =>
> 'home'));
>
> (also notice my commented other attepmts that don't work)
>
> This works, in the way that I can access a page through site.com/page-
> slug as well as site.com/pages/view/page-slug - but when I insert a
> link using $html->link() and specify the controller & action, the
> result is site.com/pages/view/page-slug instead of site.com/page-slug
>
> What am I doing wrong? What should I actually do?

It might be a good start to make that a bit more legible. And there's
not much else to say without seeing an example of how you're using
$html->link().

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