cricket - thanks for the reply, I will try it and see if it works. Thanks
Mark On Friday, August 10, 2012 4:18:32 PM UTC-4, cricket wrote: > > Here's a generic element I use for pagination: > > http://pastebin.com/JvKbyWUi > > Perhaps you can modify that to your own needs. With Cake 2.x I've had > to make some changes to what I had been using. I suppose that I must > be doing something wrong that it requires the AppController snippet. > > I think your route could be improved a bit: > > Router::connect( > '/:state/:city/:page/:slug', > array( > 'controller' => 'pages', > 'action' => 'display', > 'level' => 'town' > ), > array( > 'state' => '[a-z]{2}', > 'city' => '[-a-z]+', > 'page' => '[0-9]+', > 'slug' => '[-a-z]+', > 'pass' => array('page', 'slug') > ) > ); > > > I've added the slug to the URL, which allows you to pass it as an > action param. Otherwise, I'm not sure what good it would do you. > > I've also made a better regex for state, and "sluggified" city -- a > name with a space or apostrophe would not match your regex. Because > you want the city name to appear in URLs, you'll need to store both > the display text and slug for each city. > > As for what's being passing as params, personally, I would pass state, > city, and slug. I also think it's a bit odd that this is pointing to > PagesController. But then, I don't know the details so ... > > On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Mark Wratten <ma...@trimar.com<javascript:>> > wrote: > > I'm looking for some help with reverse routing as the documentation is a > bit > > thin. Particularly for use with rendering objects such as > PaginatorHelper. > > > > I have a URL in the format - /state/city/page/slug which I route with - > > Router::connect('/:state/:city/:page/*', array( > > 'controller' => 'pages', 'action' => 'display', 'level' => 'town'), > array( > > 'state' => '[a-z][a-z]', 'city' => '[a-z]+', 'page' => '[^/]*', 'pass' > => > > array('page'))); > > > > That works fine in the forward direction, but how do I get the > > PaginatorHelper to assemble the URL with the state and city pieces? > > > > If I add another route for ajax requests, such as - > > Router::connect('/ajax/:controller/:action/*'); > > > > That also works in the forward direction, but the URL generated by > > PaginatorHelper in the previous case now generates the URL in the form - > > /ajax/pages/display/... > > So How do you tell the reverse routing which rule to use? > > > > If I need to resort to a custom router, how do you tell the the Cake > > rendering functions to use the custom router? > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > Mark > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > "CakePHP" group. > > To post to this group, send email to cake...@googlegroups.com<javascript:>. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > cake-php+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en-US. > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en-US.
