I have same issue.
Prefix routing is useless. (reverese routing, pagination...)
"Routing.admin" accepts only one prefix.
I would like to see prefix routing fixed ASAP in cake :)
On May 8, 11:45 am, geoff <garbet...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey all. This is pretty much a copy-paste of what I've just posted on
> my blog, but it's still related to the current topic...
>
> After having worked on a particularly annoying problem involving the
> CakePHP custom prefix routing, I feel like I might have found a slight
> bug in the reverse routing (specifically, in a URL generated when
> calling Router::url()).
>
> Let me set out a test scenario, so that I can fully explain what it is
> that I am trying to do. In this test scenario, we’ve got a bustling
> social networking site. But now, we want to WAP-enable this site -
> basically, we’re going to optimise it to be viewed on mobile phones.
> However, in order to keep the WAP section separate, we’re going to use
> a custom prefix, wap.
>
> So, as an example URL, if a user wanted to log in to this mobile site,
> they would visit /wap/users/login, as opposed to /users/login on the
> main site. Additionally, when a user visits /wap, this is the exact
> same as visiting /wap/users/login.
>
> So, we can now set up our first route that would fulfill this
> functionality:
>
> Router::connect('/wap/', array(
> 'controller' => 'users',
> 'action' => 'login',
> 'prefix' => 'wap',
> 'wap' => true));
>
> This works correctly. However, what happens if I want to link to that
> route from a hyperlink contained somewhere in the page? I supply an
> array for the URL portion of the HtmlHelper::link() method. So, you
> would think that using the following snippet of code, you would be
> provided with the correct URL:
>
> echo $html->link('Foo', array(
> 'controller' => 'users',
> 'action' => 'login',
> 'prefix' => 'wap',
> 'wap' => true
> ));
>
> However, this is, unfortunately, not the case. In my experience (using
> Cake version 1.2.1.8004), the actual output obtained is something more
> along the lines of /users/login/wap:1 - so it seems as if the custom
> prefix is being ignored. However, I do believe I might have been able
> to pinpoint the bit of code in Cake that prevents the prepending of
> this prefix to the URL, as well as a possible solution that I’ve
> proposed.
>
> The code that handles this part of the routing can be found around
> line 880 in the Router core library definition:
>
> $urlOut = Set::filter(array($url['controller'], $url['action']));
>
> Now, from what I can make out, this is creating the “front” part of
> the URL - the first two sections of the URL. Notice that only the
> controller and the action are taken into account. This means that the
> custom prefix can never actually come into play, and is always
> ignored. The following code snippet is my proposed solution to fix
> this:
>
> if (empty($url['action'])) {
> if (empty($url['controller']) || $params['controller'] === $url
> ['controller']) {
> $url['action'] = $params['action'];
> } else {
> $url['action'] = 'index';
> }}
>
> // start additions
> $prefix = null;
> if(isset($url['prefix']) && isset($url[$url['prefix']]) && $url[$url
> ['prefix']] === true) {
> $prefix = $url['prefix'];
> unset($url[$url['prefix']]);} else {
>
> $prefix = null;}
>
> // ... move down to about line 880
> $urlOut = Set::filter(array($prefix, $url['controller'], $url
> ['action']));
> // end additions
>
> Now, I have a few things that I want to ask:
> 1. Have you experienced this before?
> 2. Have you managed to see any bugs in the code I've posted that I
> perhaps missed?
> 3. Do you have any objections/queries/comments/opinions on this
> modification?
> 4. If you feel that this is acceptable, how do I go about submitting
> it for inclusion into the Cake core?
>
> Cheers,
> Geoff
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