Re: Parameter passing in URL
Hi Mathew,
thanks for the help (and sorry for the delay in answering). That's a
good idea and I followed your advise, but still one problem persists:
If, in step 3 there is something wrong in validation, cake will return
to the form again. But now, the ID is no longer in the URL, so there is
an error about that.
I think, passing a parameter along the URL is a pretty common task,
isn't it? There should be more support for that in cake. For example, if
I add it to the form action (helper), cake gets all confused about it.
Yet, that would be the simplest solution.
Best Regards,
Daniel Süpke
Mathew wrote:
Hi Daniel,
You want to include the ID in the URL so that it persists when
bookmarked, and using a session doesn't provide that feature.
I understand what your trying to do, but the form action does not
require the ID to be included, because posted form requests first
require an HTML page to display the form.
Let me example.
1) User follows a link with the ID.
2) HTML with the form is shown in the browser, with the ID in the URL.
3) User enters form data, and submits the form.
4) A response from the server is shown to the user.
In step #2 when the form is displayed. You should take the ID from the
URL and add it as a hidden field in the form.
In step #3 the action that handles the form request does not need the
ID in the URL because it will be in the posted data.
In step #4 as part of the response you redirect the user to a URL that
contains the ID.
Also.
I would create a simple Helper object for your views. Not one that
creates an HTML link, because Cake comes with Form and Html helpers to
do that. All you need to do is modified a Router array to include the
ID
for example;
$html-link('Somewhere',$myhelper-
id(array('controller'='documents','action'='show')));
You create a helper called Myhelper, and add a function called id
that injects your ID from the URL into the array. Now you can call all
various helper objects that require routed links.
I think you can inject the ID as a get request like this (I can't
remember how to handle gets with params, but I think its like this)
function id( $arr )
{
$arr['?'] = array('id'=$this-params['id']);
}
That should provide Html that looks like this in your view
a href=/documents/show?id=#Somewhere/a
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Re: Parameter passing in URL
Hi, thanks for your support. I think Mathew got it pretty good, let's say I want to safe the parameter in the URL for bookmarking. Also, the user can have some tabs open with different IDs (actually, location IDs he can change at any time). Best Regards, Daniel RyOnLife wrote: Daniel, I'm a big fan of Firecake. Big time saver!! Back to your problem: You've described it in pretty general terms, which I think is usually a good idea for posting in a forum. In this case though, maybe if you provided some background and gave more specifics on what you're trying to do, myself or others could help you think through the logic. Some for the issue with IDs/tabs would be helpful. -Ryan Feanor's Curse wrote: Well, thanks for the tool RyOnLife, that's very nice indeed. Yet, I do not see how this will solve the general problem. There is an ID which has to be assigned to every page. The user can change this ID, but this should not affect any opened tabs, where he still must be able to continue with the old ID. So I do not think that the session can be used here. Best Regards, Daniel Süpke RyOnLife wrote: Daniel, I suggest you download the Firebug Firefox add-on and try it out with the http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/firecake-helper Firecake helper for CakePHP. Makes it really easy to see what's going on with session variables. Feanor's Curse wrote: How? If the user opens a new tab and changes the ID there (in the session), it will affect all other tabs, won't it? Best Regards, Daniel Süpke RyOnLife wrote: Multiple tabs won't inhibit the use of sessions. Feanor's Curse wrote: Thanks for the suggestion, but session variable won't work since the user could have open multiple tabs with different IDs. Best Regards, Daniel Süpke On Oct 27, 4:06 pm, RyOnLife [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any reason setting a session variable wouldn't work? Feanor's Curse wrote: Hi, we are using CakePHP 1.2 and I was wondering how it could be achieved to pass a parameter along every URL. We have a parameter set to an ID and it needs to be included in every URL in the application. Now, the first solution was to create a LinkHelper which added the location via $_GET, but this is not working when forms are validated by Cake, since then the url is not going via the LinkHelper. So, is there any easy way to pass around a parameter in the URL in the entire application? Best Regards, Daniel Süpke -- View this message in context:http://n2.nabble.com/Parameter-passing-in-URL-tp1118744p1382739.html Sent from the CakePHP mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Dipl.-Inform. Daniel Süpke Universität Oldenburg Abt. Wirtschaftsinformatik I Very Large Business Applications Ammerländer Heerstr. 114-118 26129 Oldenburg Raum: A4-3-327 Tel: 0441/798-4471 Fax: 0441/798-4472 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Parameter passing in URL
Well, thanks for the tool RyOnLife, that's very nice indeed. Yet, I do not see how this will solve the general problem. There is an ID which has to be assigned to every page. The user can change this ID, but this should not affect any opened tabs, where he still must be able to continue with the old ID. So I do not think that the session can be used here. Best Regards, Daniel Süpke RyOnLife wrote: Daniel, I suggest you download the Firebug Firefox add-on and try it out with the http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/firecake-helper Firecake helper for CakePHP. Makes it really easy to see what's going on with session variables. Feanor's Curse wrote: How? If the user opens a new tab and changes the ID there (in the session), it will affect all other tabs, won't it? Best Regards, Daniel Süpke RyOnLife wrote: Multiple tabs won't inhibit the use of sessions. Feanor's Curse wrote: Thanks for the suggestion, but session variable won't work since the user could have open multiple tabs with different IDs. Best Regards, Daniel Süpke On Oct 27, 4:06 pm, RyOnLife [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any reason setting a session variable wouldn't work? Feanor's Curse wrote: Hi, we are using CakePHP 1.2 and I was wondering how it could be achieved to pass a parameter along every URL. We have a parameter set to an ID and it needs to be included in every URL in the application. Now, the first solution was to create a LinkHelper which added the location via $_GET, but this is not working when forms are validated by Cake, since then the url is not going via the LinkHelper. So, is there any easy way to pass around a parameter in the URL in the entire application? Best Regards, Daniel Süpke -- View this message in context:http://n2.nabble.com/Parameter-passing-in-URL-tp1118744p1382739.html Sent from the CakePHP mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Dipl.-Inform. Daniel Süpke Universität Oldenburg Abt. Wirtschaftsinformatik I Very Large Business Applications Ammerländer Heerstr. 114-118 26129 Oldenburg Raum: A4-3-327 Tel: 0441/798-4471 Fax: 0441/798-4472 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Parameter passing in URL
How? If the user opens a new tab and changes the ID there (in the session), it will affect all other tabs, won't it? Best Regards, Daniel Süpke RyOnLife wrote: Multiple tabs won't inhibit the use of sessions. Feanor's Curse wrote: Thanks for the suggestion, but session variable won't work since the user could have open multiple tabs with different IDs. Best Regards, Daniel Süpke On Oct 27, 4:06 pm, RyOnLife [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any reason setting a session variable wouldn't work? Feanor's Curse wrote: Hi, we are using CakePHP 1.2 and I was wondering how it could be achieved to pass a parameter along every URL. We have a parameter set to an ID and it needs to be included in every URL in the application. Now, the first solution was to create a LinkHelper which added the location via $_GET, but this is not working when forms are validated by Cake, since then the url is not going via the LinkHelper. So, is there any easy way to pass around a parameter in the URL in the entire application? Best Regards, Daniel Süpke -- View this message in context:http://n2.nabble.com/Parameter-passing-in-URL-tp1118744p1382739.html Sent from the CakePHP mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Dipl.-Inform. Daniel Süpke Universität Oldenburg Abt. Wirtschaftsinformatik I Very Large Business Applications Ammerländer Heerstr. 114-118 26129 Oldenburg Raum: A4-3-327 Tel: 0441/798-4471 Fax: 0441/798-4472 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Parameter passing in URL
Thanks for the suggestion, but session variable won't work since the user could have open multiple tabs with different IDs. Best Regards, Daniel Süpke On Oct 27, 4:06 pm, RyOnLife [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any reason setting a session variable wouldn't work? Feanor's Curse wrote: Hi, we are using CakePHP 1.2 and I was wondering how it could be achieved to pass a parameter along every URL. We have a parameter set to an ID and it needs to be included in every URL in the application. Now, the first solution was to create a LinkHelper which added the location via $_GET, but this is not working when forms are validated by Cake, since then the url is not going via the LinkHelper. So, is there any easy way to pass around a parameter in the URL in the entire application? Best Regards, Daniel Süpke -- View this message in context:http://n2.nabble.com/Parameter-passing-in-URL-tp1118744p1382739.html Sent from the CakePHP mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Parameter passing in URL
Thanks for your answer! Storing the id in the session is unfortunately not possible as the user may have different tabs with different ids. Anyway, I think most of the problems are solved, but suddenly there is something new (at least, I discovered it just now), which I think might be a bug: We are using the Auth-Component for automatic login. But this component always redirects with all URL parameters missing (and, thus, the id parameter). I don't think this is intended behaviour. I found a similar bug report about this, but upgrading to the newest RC did not solve the problem. Any ideas? https://trac.cakephp.org/ticket/4750 Regards, Daniel Süpke RichardAtHome wrote: or store the id in the session? On Sep 26, 12:17 pm, Daniel Süpke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you very much, I'll have a look at that! Best Regards, Daniel Süpke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't done exactly that but I think you could set all urls and links using the array notation. The array could then also be pre- populated with the parameter you want to keep in each request. (Pre- populated in some central place like AppController::beforeFilter before any links are generated) On Sep 25, 1:23 pm, Daniel Süpke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, we are using CakePHP 1.2 and I was wondering how it could be achieved to pass a parameter along every URL. We have a parameter set to an ID and it needs to be included in every URL in the application. Now, the first solution was to create a LinkHelper which added the location via $_GET, but this is not working when forms are validated by Cake, since then the url is not going via the LinkHelper. So, is there any easy way to pass around a parameter in the URL in the entire application? Best Regards, Daniel Süpke -- Dipl.-Inform. Daniel Süpke Universität Oldenburg Abt. Wirtschaftsinformatik I Very Large Business Applications Ammerländer Heerstr. 114-118 26129 Oldenburg Raum: A4-3-327 Tel: 0441/798-4471 Fax: 0441/798-4472 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Parameter passing in URL
Thank you very much, I'll have a look at that! Best Regards, Daniel Süpke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't done exactly that but I think you could set all urls and links using the array notation. The array could then also be pre- populated with the parameter you want to keep in each request. (Pre- populated in some central place like AppController::beforeFilter before any links are generated) On Sep 25, 1:23 pm, Daniel Süpke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, we are using CakePHP 1.2 and I was wondering how it could be achieved to pass a parameter along every URL. We have a parameter set to an ID and it needs to be included in every URL in the application. Now, the first solution was to create a LinkHelper which added the location via $_GET, but this is not working when forms are validated by Cake, since then the url is not going via the LinkHelper. So, is there any easy way to pass around a parameter in the URL in the entire application? Best Regards, Daniel Süpke --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Parameter passing in URL
Hi, we are using CakePHP 1.2 and I was wondering how it could be achieved to pass a parameter along every URL. We have a parameter set to an ID and it needs to be included in every URL in the application. Now, the first solution was to create a LinkHelper which added the location via $_GET, but this is not working when forms are validated by Cake, since then the url is not going via the LinkHelper. So, is there any easy way to pass around a parameter in the URL in the entire application? Best Regards, Daniel Süpke --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
