Good morning,

I have a ProjectsController that works fine with the usual
add/edit/view/index.

I can successfully view a project with /projects/view/$id.

Each project has also a unique name, and I would like to refer to each
project even with a url like /projects/$name.

I thought about extending the AppError on the missingAction and do the
required operations (code in the "footer" of the mail).

requestAction retrieve successfully the project detail with the right
thtml but no layout is rendered.

How can I render the correct page without doing a redirect?

Another question: is it possible to specify a different ErrorHandler
for a controller? So it could be possible to avoid ugly
switch. Something like setting the errorHandler variable inside the
controller.

Thanks a lot
Davide

<?php
/*
 * app/error.php
 */
class AppError extends ErrorHandler{
   function missingAction($params){
      switch($params["className"]){
         case "ProjectsController":
            loadModel("Project");
            $model = new Project();
            $data = $model->findByName($params["action"]);
            echo
$this->requestAction("/projects/view/".$data["Project"]["id"],
array("return"));
            break;
         default:
            parent::missingAction($params);
            break;
      }

   }

?>

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At the moment I've solved in this way. Don't know if it's the right
way but it's working.

Thanks a lot
Bye
Davide

<?php
/*
 * app/error.php
 */
class AppError extends ErrorHandler{
   function missingAction($params){
      switch($params["className"]){
         case "ProjectsController":
            loadModel("Project");
            $model = new Project();
            $data = $model->findByName($params["action"]);
            if(is_null($data) || empty($data)){
               parent::missingAction($params);
            }else{
               $this->controller->webroot = $params["webroot"];
               $this->controller->set("content_for_layout",$this->requestAction("/projects /view/".$data["Project"]["id"],
array("return")));
               $this->controller->pageTitle = $data["Project"]["name"];
               $this->controller->viewPath = "layouts";
               $this->controller->render("ajax");
            }
            break;
         default:
            parent::missingAction($params);
            break;
      }

   }

?>

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I wrote a code (at the bottom) that in case of missingAction will search
in the database and if found then render the proper view.

Everything works fine except when I turn DEBUG=0 (production setup). Now
cake always render the 404 without entering the AppError::missingAction().

How can I do?

Following the code.

Bye and thanks
Davide

/*
 * app/error.php
 */
class AppError extends ErrorHandler{
   function missingAction($params){
      switch($params["className"]){
         case "ProjectsController":
            loadModel("Project");
            $model = new Project();
            $data = $model->findByAlias($params["action"]);
            if(is_null($data) || empty($data)){
               parent::missingAction($params);
            }else{
               $this->controller->webroot = $params["webroot"];
               $this->controller->set("content_for_layout",$this->requestAction("/projects /view/".$data["Project"]["id"],
array("return")));
               $this->controller->pageTitle = $data["Project"]["name"];
               $this->controller->viewPath = "layouts";
               $this->controller->render("ajax");
            }
            break;
         default:
            parent::missingAction($params);
            break;
      }

   }

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How about in one line?
In the app/config/routes.php file:

Router::connect('/projects/:id', array('action' => 'view'), array('id'
=> '[0-9]+'));

-J.

On Apr 28, 10:31 am, "Davide" <d...@linux.it> wrote:

Whoops, didn't see that you wanted to also refer to the unique name of
the project.  So A few more lines.

For that, use:
(app/config/routes.php)
Router::connect('/projects/:name', array('action'=>'view',
'name'=>null));

And in your projects/view controller/action pair:
function view() {
    if (empty($this->params['name'])) {
       return $this->setAction('index');
    }

    $conditions = array('name'=>$this->params['name']);
    $project = $this->Project->find($conditions);
    $this->set(compact('project'));

-J.

On Apr 28, 12:41 pm, Joel Perras <joelp...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks Joel,

unfortunly Router::connect() seems not to work for me. Cake
1.1.18. It's simply ignored. But you gave me a hint and using
$Route->connect(...) I can achieve my goal.

However I have to add a $Route->connect() for each action and it's not
beautiful and subject to errors. I'm thinking in a workaround
solution. I will post it here.

Thanks for the hint.
Davide

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Worked a bit on it, but it took too much time for achieving a good
solution so I finally opted for mapping each action in routes.php and
managing the alias in the view action. So finally here is the code[1].

Now I'm asking myself about the utility of AppError if it's disabled
in a production environment. Can someone answer me maybe with a
scenario?

Thanks a lot.
Bye
Davide

1.

//routes.php
...
$Route->connect("/projects/",
array("controller"=>"projects","action"=>"index"));
$Route->connect("/projects/add/",
array("controller"=>"projects","action"=>"add"));
$Route->connect("/projects/delete/",
array("controller"=>"projects","action"=>"delete"));
$Route->connect("...
...
$Route->connect("/projects/view/",
array("controller"=>"projects","action"=>"view"));
$Route->connect("/projects/:alias",
array("controller"=>"projects","action"=>"view"));

//app/controllers/projects_controller.php
...
   function view($id=null){
      $data = null;
      if(empty($this->params["alias"]) && is_null($id)){
         $this->cakeError("error404",array($this->params["url"]));
      }else{
         if(!is_null($id)){
            $data = $this->Project->findById($id);
         }else{
            $data = $this->Project->findByAlias($this->params["alias"]);
         }
...

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