What about a custom routing prefix ( ie. admin routing ) - just add
'reports' to the prefix array and then in the sales controller do a
reports_index function and in the customers controller define a
reports_index function and cakes default routing will give you the 2
urls you used as an example.
On Oct 13, 2:22 am, Michael T <michael.to...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have to do a similar thing in my Cake app, so I'm very interested to
> hear how you go about it in the end. For the time being I've taken
> your first approach of having a report-per-action in the one
> controller.
>
> I was thinking about defining each report in the Model layer however
> (similar to what cricket was saying) by parameterising each report
> into the necessary fields and then defining them in the app itself or
> in the database. Hadn't thought about the routing issues yet however.
>
> On Oct 13, 12:44 pm, cricket <zijn.digi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Why not just use a single controller that $uses each of the models in
> > question?
>
> > Router::connect(
> > '/reports/:type',
> > array(
> > 'controller' => 'reports',
> > 'action' => 'view'
> > ),
> > array(
> > 'type' => '[a-z]+',
> > 'pass' => array('type')
> > )
> > );
>
> > public function view($type = null)
> > {
> > if (!$type)
> > {
> > // ...
> > }
>
> > $model = Inflector::modelize($type);
> > // ...
>
> > }
> > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Raisen <weys...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Assume that I have a reports page where there would be multiple sub-
> > > reports. I want the urls to look like:
>
> > > /reports/sales/
> > > /reports/customers/
>
> > > One way I managed to do that was to create actions inside the reports
> > > controller for each subreport, but I am trying to do something
> > > different. I want each subreport to have its own controller,view.
> > > Basically I would have a controller named:
>
> > > reports_sales_controller
>
> > > and views
>
> > > /reports/sales/index.ctp
>
> > > Is that possible?
>
> > > I was trying to do something like:
>
> > > Router::connect('/reports/(.*)/*', array('controller'=>'$1',
> > > 'action'=>'index'));
>
> > > which probably it's way off what I want.
>
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