I've got a question about best practice - it is about forcing
everything in a controller through a single method as a result of
wanting nice urls
I have a controller called Products (based on a table called products)
that also uses a table called product_items (products is actually a
table of product categories - but this is all in the name of nice
urls, product_items contains the actual products)
For example:
/products
(shows you a list of product categories e.g. 'Pet Foods')
/products/pet_foods
(shows you all the products within the 'Pet Foods' category)
/products/pet_foods/chappie
(shows you the detail page for chappie)
This all works fine - the way I have done it is to do the following, I
have set up the following route:
$Route->connect('/products/(.*)', array('controller' => 'products',
'action' => 'index'));
So anything gets pointed at the index method in the controller, my
code within the index method looks something like this:
function index($product_cat_url = null, $product_item_url = null) {
if($product_cat_url)
{
// check the product cat is valid
etc.
}
if($product_item_url)
{
// check the product item is valid
etc.
}
etc.
This works great - but now I want to add locations so for instance I
might have a url like:
/products/london/pet_foods
(shows you all the products within the 'Pet Foods' category in london)
Obviously I can just add more code in the index method, but then this
in itself might get really unwieldy - but it has got me thinking is
there a better way of doing this? I was Googling and found this thread
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/cake-php/browse_thread/thread/5634c96badc17bf9/d8bc12220a9658c3b#d8bc122209658c3b
which I'd forgotten about (it was for a personal project and I've
never had to finnish it) used a beforeFilter() to pass it to a
different controller - but then I might just end up duplicating loads
of code in two methods...
So in the situations like this what do people do? Is there a better
solution?
Thanks
p.s. I'm using 1.1
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