Re: Routing to 2 controllers?

Hi

Can I assume that you have implemented authentication in your CakePHP application using the Auth component?
See the CakePHP book here about Authentication:
http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/core-libraries/components/authentication.html

Take specially a look at the section "Identifying users and logging them in" which contains a code example of the login method for your usage. As Andrew wrote, it should then be simple for you to implement an IF statement (or other) and redirect the user to the correct URL of your appilcation.

Enjoy, John


On Sunday, 21 December 2014 12:56:18 UTC+2, rc.go...@gmail.com wrote:

Thanks for clarifying regarding routes.

Could you clarify what you mean "It be a simple `if` statement that calls one of two of the controllers `private` or `protected` methods which contain the login for wether the username is "Bob" or "BobsShop".

I have a UsersController and a ShopsController, the former handles the "Bob" username while the latter handles "BobsShop" username. So if i route the /:username url to my UsersController, how should I handle the logic for the "BobsShop" username?

Thanks

> On Dec 20, 2014, at 9:09 PM, Andrew Lechowicz <drew.le...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi. I want to route a url to 2 controllers depending on some logic I define. For example, if I have 2 usernames Bob and BobsShop, I want localhost/Bob to route to my UsersController while localhost/BobsShop will route to my ShopsController. I've thought of one way to accomplish this - by writing a common ObjectsController that represents both a User and a Shop. Is there an easier way via cake's routing mechanism? Thanks!
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> It seems like you might be confused as to what is a route and what is a controller and what is a model. A route shouldn't contain any logic, it's just the mapping of URL to Controller action. Or another way to put it is URL to logic to perform. I would suggest if you have a route like `/:username` it would route to a sigle controller action which then decided which logic to perform. It be a simple `if` statement that calls one of two of the controllers `private` or `protected` methods which contain the login for wether the username is "Bob" or "BobsShop".
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