Can't you just get them to create the url like:
http://servername.com/?url=/resorts/view/12/28/4
then it should just work - as your .htaccess rules just rewrite the
"standard" cake urls into this fashion anyway.
On May 10, 10:54 am, "Erich C. Beyrent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I am sorry I was not clear - I don't need to construct the URL from Cake
> - I need Cake to HANDLE this URL.
>
> I specify the URL, the vendor generates an email containing the link,
> Joe Smith receives the email and clicks on the link.
>
> I was thinking about parsing out the URL in index.php and reconstructing
> the bits into the format that Cake expects, but it seems like such a hack.
>
> Is there something I can do with rewrite rules instead to reformat the url?
>
> Felix Geisendörfer wrote:
> > Not really a CakePHP specific question. But today is your lucky day. A)
> > I'm looking for any kind of excuse to not study for my physics final
> > tomorrow. B) I like playing with array, regex and urls : ).
>
> > So here you go:
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > $vendorUrl =
> > toStupidVendorUrl('http://servername.com/resorts/view/12/28/4');
> > debug($vendorUrl);
>
> > function toStupidVendorUrl($url)
> > {
> > $uri = parse_url($url);
> > $path = explode('/', substr($uri['path'], 1));
> > $query = array();
> > foreach ($path as $i => $element)
> > {
> > $i = ife($i == 0, null, $i);
> > $query['var'.$i] = $element;
> > }
> > $query = http_build_query($query);
> > return
> > preg_replace('/^('.preg_quote($uri['scheme']).':\/\/.+\/).+$/UD',
> > '\\1?'.$query, $url);
> > }
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > (Code requires CakePHP or PHP5)
>
> > -- Felix
> > --------------------------
> >http://www.thinkingphp.org
> >http://www.fg-webdesign.de
>
> > Erich C. Beyrent wrote:
> >> I have a vendor that is doing email marketing for me. They allow custom
> >> fields to be specified in their content templates. However, they don't
> >> support full urls as a custom field, only parts of the query string.
>
> >> I am sending them a URL like:
>
> >>http://servername.com/resorts/view/12/28/4
>
> >> and they need me to break that into:
>
> >>http://servername.com/?var=resorts&var2=view&var3=12&var4=28&var5=4
>
> >> Any ideas how to accomplish this?
>
> >> -Erich-
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