Re: Routing to 2 controllers?

Ok. Here's a Gist of what your code might look like: https://gist.github.com/alecho/e7b573cc54140ba1706d

By making the methods private it means that CakePHP won't let them be publicly callable methods. This avoids redirects so that your url is still the same too. I think this approach is easier to test as well.

This assumes that you can't just use regular expressions on the username to route to different controllers or actions. In other words, your username has nothing to do with wether your user is a "user" or a "shop". You may also want to look into ensuring usernames are valid in the router with a custom route class but this is not required. Check out Mark Story's post on this: http://mark-story.com/posts/view/using-custom-route-classes-in-cakephp.

On Sunday, December 21, 2014 5:56:18 AM UTC-5, . . 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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