Routing to a different URLs based on post type

Question

What would be the best way to set up my routes so different types of posts have different URLs?

For example, regular posts are /posts/slug while featured posts are /featured/slug

Both link to the same controller and action /posts/view/slug.

I experimented with different ways of doing this but with little success. Currently my link params look something like the following:

array('controller' => 'posts', 'action' => 'view', 'featured' ,$post['Post']['slug'])

Edit: I could create an action for each different type and use setAction to use the view action instead. Although is there a better way to do this?

array('controller' => 'posts', 'action' => 'featured', $post['Post']['slug'])

function featured($slug) {
    $this->setAction('view', $slug);
}

Answer 1

I think you can also do this by adding follow line in your /app/config/routes.php:

Router::connect('/:controller/featured/*',array('action' => 'view'));

See route setting in cookbook

Answer 2

This might work:

// app/config/routes.php
Router::connect('/featured/:slug', array(
  'controller' => 'posts',
  'action' => 'view',
  'type' => 'featured'
));
Router::connect('/posts/:slug', array(
  'controller' => 'posts',
  'action' => 'view',
  'type' => 'normal'
));

// one of your views
echo $html->link('Featured post title', array(
  'controller' => 'posts',
  'action' => 'view',
  'type' => 'featured',
  'slug' => $post['Post']['slug']
));
or
echo $html->link('Normal post title', array(
  'controller' => 'posts',
  'action' => 'view',
  'type' => 'normal',
  'slug' => $post['Post']['slug']
));