Thanks for such a comprehensive reply!
Just trying things out, and the first part doesnt seem to work,
I'm trying to get www.domain.com/slug
to actually be www.domain.com/artists/view/slug
Any ideas?
d.
On 30 June, 19:17, cricket <zijn.digi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 6:02 AM, designv...@gmail.com
>
> <designv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > hi there,
>
> > I have (imo) a slightly tricky routing issue.
>
> > I have a store setup with various artists and the artists have their
> > own mini stores with custom layout etc...
>
> > Now I want to route the following;
>
> >www.domain.com/artist_slug -> /artists/view/artist_slug
>
> If you mean thatwww.domain.com/artist_slugshould point to:
>
> controller => artists
> view => view
> pass => artist_slug
>
> ... then, yes, that's pretty simple.
>
> Router::connect(
> '/artists/:slug',
> array('controller' => 'artists', 'action' => 'view'),
> array('slug' => '[-a-z]+', 'pass' => array('slug'))
> );
>
> If you may have underscores, then use '[_-a-z]+'. If digits also,
> '[_-a-z0-9]+'.
>
> Then, you controller method should look like:
>
> function view($slug = null) {
>
> The only issue here is that you must explicitly provide routes for any
> other non-admin ArtistsController actions *before* this route.
>
> > and also:
>
> >www.domain.com/artist_slug/merch/merch_slug -> /artists/view_merch/
> > artist_slug/merch_slug
>
> This is a bit trickier because you're starting the URL with a slug. So
> you'd need to provide every route for *all* controllers before this
> route. You'd need to do this because Cake can figure out a route even
> if it's not listed in routes.php. But, because the first part of the
> URL is a wildcard, all other routes must then be explicit.
>
> Question: why do you need a slug for both the artist and merchant? Are
> they not the same? Also, you could get around the above issue by
> doing:
>
> Router::connect(
> '/merch/:slug',
> array('controller' => 'artists', 'action' => 'merch_view'),
> array('slug' => '[-a-z]+', 'pass' => array('slug'))
> );
>
> public function merch_view($slug = null) {
>
> IOW, you're URL would bewww.domain.com/merch/slug
>
> > I have tried a ton of things and they all seem to fail - do I need to
> > build the routes dynamically from the DB?
>
> There is a way to to connect routes on the fly by querying the
> database. It has the benefit that you wouldn't have to register all
> other routes because you'd be assigning a route with the explicit
> slug, as opposed to using a regexp. Say that you want the URL to start
> with the artist slug, but you don't want to have to register every
> other route for your app. At the very end of routes.php:
>
> App::import('Model', 'Artist');
> $artist = new Artist();
> $slugs = $artist->find(
> 'list',
> array(
> 'fields' => array('Artist.slug'),
> 'order' => 'Artist.slug DESC'
> )
> );
> Router::connect(
> '/:slug',
> array('controller' => 'artists', 'action' => 'view'),
> array('slug' => implode($slugs, '|'), 'pass' => array('slug'))
> );
>
> So, your 2nd array would actually be something like:
>
> 'slug' => 'foo|bar|fred|wilma|barney|betty|etc'
>
> I got this from an article somewhere for making the PagesController
> get it's pages from the database.
>
> However, there's a better way (AFAICT) that I figured out. Instead of
> fetching the slugs from the DB on every single request, cache the
> output.
>
> In bootstrap.php:
>
> $slugs = Cache::read('artist_slugs');
>
> if (empty($slugs))
> {
> App::import('Model', 'Artist');
> $artist = new Artist();
> $slugs = $artist->find(
> 'list',
> array(
> 'fields' => array('Artist.slug'),
> 'order' => 'Artist.slug DESC'
> )
> );
> Cache::write('artist_slugs', $slugs);}
>
> Configure::write('artist_slugs', $slugs);
>
> In routes.php:
>
> Router::connect(
> '/:slug',
> array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' => 'view'),
> array('slug' => implode(Configure::read('artist_slugs'), '|'), 'pass'
> => array('slug'))
> );
>
> So, any time an artist is added or deleted, you'd want to remove the
> cache file so that it'll be rebuilt on the next request.
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