cakephp why can't I have an admin route and a superuser route?

Question

In core.php I can define

Configure::write('Routing.admin', 'admin');

and /admin/controller/index will work.

but if I define both

Configure::write('Routing.admin', 'admin');
Configure::write('Routing.superuser', 'superuser');

and try to look at /superuser/blah/index/ instead of it saying the controller doesn't exist it says

Error: SuperuserController could not be found.

instead of saying

Error: BlahController could not be found.

When I first read the documentation I was under the impression I could run both routes, and not just one or the other. Is there something more I need to do?

Answer 1

I believe they are working on this for CakePHP 1.3, but for now, we have to cheat to accomplish additional routing. This is the method I've used in the past.

// SuperUser Routing
Router::connect('/superuser/:controller',
    array('prefix' => 'superuser', 'superuser' => true));
Router::connect('/superuser/:controller/:action/*',
    array('prefix' => 'superuser', 'superuser' => true));

There were some issues generating URLs using the array('controller' => ...) method, but I haven't touched that project in a few months, so I can't remember all the caveats with it. This should at least give you a starting point though.

The CakePHP document explains this some. The relevant section starts about halfway in talking about multiple prefixes.

Answer 2

If you're using Jason's trick, and having trouble with generating URLs using the array('controller' => ...) syntax, then put this in your appcontroller:

if (isset($this->params['prefix']) && $this->params['prefix'] == 'superuser') {      Configure::write('Routing.admin', 'superuser');
}

This forces the appcontroller to use the correct admin prefix, which in this case is "superuser".