Thanks for your help.
On Aug 18, 2:32 pm, Martin Westin <martin.westin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You should be alright with something like:
>
> Router::connect('/optimised_category_name/*', array('controller' =>
> 'controller_from_cake', 'action' => 'view'));
>
> Anything beginning with desired controller name is routed to the view
> action. You would also need to add specific routes (above that one)
> for any edit, delete.. and so on.
>
> On Aug 18, 2:25 pm, Taff <taff.law...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hey Martin,
>
> > thanks for the reply. That is currently how I have it working. My
> > intention is to do away with the view part of the URL to all intensive
> > purposes so that an call to
>
> > controller/slug
>
> > actually reroutes to controller/view/slug
>
> > The other issue was that I have rerouted my controller from its
> > original name to something a little more search engine friendly.
>
> > controller_from_cake/view/4
>
> > to
>
> > optimised_category_name/optimised_page_name/
>
> > I have no need to visit the frontends controller_from_cakes other
> > methods (just the view).
>
> > Thanks again
> > Taff
>
> > On Aug 18, 1:49 pm, Martin Westin <martin.westin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > I should also say that the routing bit is useful as a first line of
> > > defence against bad slugs.
>
> > > On Aug 18, 12:46 pm, Taff <taff.law...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > After reading
> > > > throughhttp://book.cakephp.org/view/46/Routes-Configuration
> > > > along withhttp://c7y.phparch.com/c/entry/1/art,cake-seoandpottering
> > > > around for quite some time, I have come to the conclusion that I need
> > > > some help. Here is the scenario:
>
> > > > I am rerouting a controllername to a different name that is SEO
> > > > friendlier:
>
> > > > Router::connect('/consulting/:action/*', array('controller' =>
> > > > 'consultingskills', 'action' => 'index'));
>
> > > > This works just fine, and I can now go to site/consulting/view/4 and
> > > > it will load the relevant information.
>
> > > > How would I go about routing to make a URL such as site/consulting/seo
> > > > redirect to site/consultingskills/view/4
>
> > > > whereby id 4 in the database has a slug called "seo".
>
> > > > I found a random post with
>
> > > > Router::connect('/consultingskills/:slug',
> > > > array('controller' => 'consultingskills', 'action' => 'view'),
> > > > array('slug' => '[-_A-Za-z0-9]+')
> > > > );
>
> > > > Can anyone walk me through what steps I need to take?
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Taff
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