how to remove action name from URL in cakephp2

Question

may be duplicate but I don't get any proper answer or help

actually I want to do like:

my current URL is : http://mysite.com/MyController/view/page1

but I want something like :http://mysite.com/MyController/page1

means I want to hide action name from URL.

I have used

Router::connect('/:controller/:id',array('action' => 'view'),array('id' => '[0-9]+'));

but its not working for me

below one working fine but

Router::connect('/:controller/*', array('action' => 'view'),array('id' => '[0-9]+'));

it applies for all controller but I wanted to apply for specific controller

Answer 1

use

Router::connect('/MyController/:id', array('controller' => 'MyController','action' => 'view'),array('id' => '[0-9]+'));

Answer 2

Try the following code for your controller, Here am using GroupsController as an example

You add this in your app\Config\routes.php

Router::connect('/groups/:slugParam', array('controller' => 'groups', 'action' => 'index'), array('slugParam' => '[a-zA-Z0-9]+'));

This should redirect all requests of the form

http://www.site.com/groups/* to http://www.site.com/groups/index

( * => whatever comes after the controller name )

So now i have to alter my default index function in GroupsController to reflect this change

<?php
App::uses('AppController', 'Controller');
class GroupsController extends AppController {

        public function index($id = null) {

            //pr($this->request->params);   this where all data is intercepted...
            if(isset($this->request->params['slugParam']) && !empty($this->request->params['slugParam'])) {

                // i have a slug field in groups databsae and hence instead of id am using slug field to identify the post.
                $data = $this->Group->findBySlug($this->request->params['slugParam']);
                $this->set('group', $data);
                $this->render('/groups/view');
            } 
    }
}
?>

Answer 3

use this code

Router::connect('/MyController/:id', array('controller' => 'MyController','action' => 'view'),array('id' => '[0-9]+'));

Answer 4

use this code

Router::connect('/:controller/*', array('action' => 'view'),array('id' => '[0-9]+'));

Answer 5

You can use Cake's routing to get this to work.

Add the following to your app/Config/routes.php

Router::connect('/Controller/page1', '/Controller/view/page1');

But you will have to add a route for every 'page'.

You can use a wildcard route to match everything starting with /Controller/:

Router::connect('/Controller/*', '/Controller/view/');

Or, without touching routes:

class FooController extends AppController

    public function index($stub) {

        $data = $this->findByStub($stub);

        if (!$data) {
            die('page not found');
        }

        $this->set('data', $data);

    }

}

}

Which allows you to have urls such as /foo/page1

(The routine looks for a Foo with a stub field matching 'page1')

This works, but you will loose the benefit of reverse routing which means you can make links like this: $this->Html->link(array('controller'=>'foo', 'action'=>'view', 'page1'); which cake will automagically rewrite to produce: /foo/page1