Creating meaningful add URLs in Cakephp

Question

Hi there,

For my site I have a number of Orders each of which contains a number of Quotes. A quote is always tied to an individual order, so in the quotes controller I add a quote with reference to it's order:

function add($orderId) {
    // funtion here
}

And the calling URL looks a bit like

http://www.example.com/quotes/add/1

It occurred to me the URLs would make more sense if they looked a bit more like

http://www.example.com/orders/1/quotes/add

As the quote is being added to order 1.

Is this something it's possible to achieve in CakePHP?

Cheers,

Tom

Answer 1

Have a look at the documentation for defining routes.

Something like this should do the trick:

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

You will be able to access the ID with $this->params['id'] in QuotesController::add().

Edit:

Also, have a look at the documentation for passing parameters to action.

It is possible to pass the ID in as a parameter of the controller action like so:

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

You can then access the ID with $id in QuotesController::add($id).