Routing by hostname in CakePHP

Question

Is it possible to do domain-specific routes in cakephp?

for example, let's say I have 2 domains: manufacturer.com and productname.com

productname.com is parked on manufacturer.com.

I'd like to create a route like this:

Router::connect('http://www.productname.com/', array('controller' => 'products', 'action' => 'view', 'productSlug'));

so basically the index for manufacturer.com is the default pages/index but for productname.com it should be products/view/productSlug

Is this possible with Cake?

Answer 1

This is possible, but I probably wouldn't use routes to do it. Mostly because I'm no wizard when it comes to them ;).

For the kind of flexibility you want, I would think that you could route all requests to a centralized controller (probably your AppController, actually). Then have that controller determine the logic for invoking different controllers and actions.

Answer 2

I'm just gonna answer my own question with the solution I came up with.

Instead of trying to check the domain inside the routes, a better way would be checking the hostname before even defining routes. For example:

if($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']=='productname.com')
   Router::connect('/', array('controller' => 'products', 'action' => 'view', 'productSlug'));
else
   Router::connect('/', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' => 'index'));

Any opinions? Good or bad? I haven't tested it yet, but at least I don't see anything wrong :)