Cakephp routing controller alias

Question

I'm trying to do the same as this site, stackoverflow, do with their URLs.

CakePHP works like this: website/controller/action/

I want to config routing to achieve this:

myWebSite.com/questions/(question_id)/(question)/

eg: myWebSite.com/questions/12874722/cakephp-routing-controller-alias /

I didnt figured it out how to do this bold part of URL.

Answer 1

In your Config/routes.php

Router::connect('/questions/*', array('controller' => 'questions', 'action' => 'view'));

In Controller/QuestionsController.php

view action get question id as

public function view() {
    $question_id = isset($this->request->params['pass'][0]) ? $this->request->params['pass'][0] : "";
    $question = isset($this->request->params['pass'][1]) ? $this->request->params['pass'][1] : "";

    if( empty($question_id) ) {
        throw new NotFoundException('Could not find that question');
    }

    // if $question is empty then get slug from database and redirect to /question_id/question


    // Get question details and set
}