Re: Routing blues: routing / subcategory challenge

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 2:41 PM, cyboman <allanmon@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello fellow bakers,
>
> I've been trying to figure out a route challenge.
>
> I have the following routes which work fine:
>
> Router::connect('/category/*', array('controller' => 'categories', 'action'
> => 'index', 'category'));
> Router::connect('/subcategory/*', array('controller' => 'categories',
> 'action' => 'index', 'subcategory'));

Something like this could work. You may need to change the regex.

Router::connect(
'/category/:category',
// ...
array(
'category' => '[-a-z]+',
'pass' => array('category')
)
);

// put this before subcategory to make sure bare word 'item' is matched
Router::connect(
'/category/:category/item/:item',
// ...
array(
'category' => '[-a-z]+',
'item' => '[-a-z]+',
'pass' => array('category', 'item')
)
);

// anything except 'item'
Router::connect(
'/category/:category/:sub_category',
// ...
array(
'category' => '[-a-z]+',
'sub_category' => '[-a-z]+',
'pass' => array('category', 'sub_category')
)
);

Router::connect(
'/category/:category/:sub_category/item/:item',
// ...
array(
'category' => '[-a-z]+',
'sub_category' => '[-a-z]+',
'item' => '[-a-z]+',
'pass' => array('category', 'sub_category', 'item')
)
);

> As you can see, they pass a param of either 'category' or 'subcategory',
> this is used in the categories controller to change which model it searches
> from.

If you're switching models then it'd probably be better to create
routes for each. Probably controllers, too.

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