CakePHP passing arguments in Controller::redirect

Question

In controller actions to make redirect I use this:

$this->redirect(array('controller' => 'tools', 'action' => 'index'));

or this

$this->redirect('/tools/index');

And when I pass data with redirect I use this:

$this->redirect('tools/index/?myArgument=12');

But I couldn't find how to pass "myargument" by "this-redirect-array" notation.
I don't want to use this because some routing issues:

$this->redirect(array('controller' => 'tools', 'action' => 'index', "myArgument"));

I need something like this:

$this->redirect(array('controller' => 'tools', 'action' => 'index', "?myArgument=12"));

Answer 1

This should work:

$this->redirect(array('controller' => 'tools', 'action' => 'index', 'myArgument' => 12));

Take a look at CakePHP Cookbook - Controller::redirect

Accessing request parameters:

$this->request['myArgument'];
$this->request->myArgument;
$this->request->params['myArgument'];

Answer 2

Using this to redirect:

$this->redirect(array('controller' => 'tools', 'action' => 'index', 'myArgument' => 12));

And Router::connectNamed() to router.php to change separator from ":" to "=":

Router::connectNamed(
    array('myArgument' => array('action' => 'index', 'controller' => 'tools')), array('default' => false, 'greedy' => false, 'separator' => '=')

);

Answer 3

Cake does indeed support query arguments using the question mark, like this:

$this->redirect(array(
    'controller' => 'tools', 'action' => 'index', '?' => array(
        'myArgument' => 12
    )
));

http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/development/routing.html#reverse-routing

But it would be better to just do, like des said:

$this->redirect(array(
    'controller' => 'tools', 'action' => 'index', 'myArgument' => 12
));