Comments on: CakePHP: Prettier URLs for Plugins http://jamienay.com/2009/05/cakephp-prettier-urls-for-plugins/ A PHP web developer writing about the web. Sun, 29 Aug 2010 15:08:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jamie http://jamienay.com/2009/05/cakephp-prettier-urls-for-plugins/comment-page-1/#comment-959 Jamie Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:36:17 +0000 http://jamienay.com/?p=146#comment-959 Great tip! Thanks for pointing that out, I missed that second bullet point in the book. I would've approved your comment sooner, but for whatever reason WP didn't send me email notification and I haven't logged in for a few days. :) Your suggestion works well for simple plugins that only have one controller, since you can just give the controller the same name as the plugin. But if you have more than one controller, things get a little sticky. Great tip! Thanks for pointing that out, I missed that second bullet point in the book. I would’ve approved your comment sooner, but for whatever reason WP didn’t send me email notification and I haven’t logged in for a few days. :)

Your suggestion works well for simple plugins that only have one controller, since you can just give the controller the same name as the plugin. But if you have more than one controller, things get a little sticky.

]]> By: deizel. http://jamienay.com/2009/05/cakephp-prettier-urls-for-plugins/comment-page-1/#comment-799 deizel. Fri, 29 May 2009 14:30:34 +0000 http://jamienay.com/?p=146#comment-799 While not always a solution, it is possible to have Cake automagically hide the plugin's name in the URL by having the your plugin and plugin's controller both share the same name. So using your example above: http://mydomain.com/calendar/calendar_events/view .. if we rename the plugin to `calendar_events`, the url becomes: http://mydomain.com/calendar_events/view .. or, if we rename the controller to `calendar`, the url becomes: http://mydomain.com/calendar/view See the second bullet point here: http://book.cakephp.org/view/119/Plugin-Tips :) While not always a solution, it is possible to have Cake automagically hide the plugin’s name in the URL by having the your plugin and plugin’s controller both share the same name.

So using your example above:

http://mydomain.com/calendar/calendar_events/view

.. if we rename the plugin to `calendar_events`, the url becomes:

http://mydomain.com/calendar_events/view

.. or, if we rename the controller to `calendar`, the url becomes:

http://mydomain.com/calendar/view

See the second bullet point here: http://book.cakephp.org/view/119/Plugin-Tips

:)

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