CakePHP Routing With Parameters

Anything you need to know with cakePHP routing can be found here.

Here is an example to illustrate routing with parameters.

/config/routes.php

Router::connect(
    '/:controller/:year/:month/:day',
    array('action' => 'index', 'day' => null),
    array(
        'year' => '[12][0-9]{3}',
        'month' => '(0[1-9]|1[012])',
        'day' => '(0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])'
    )
);

Parameters can be access like this:

/controllers/controller.php

function index(){
    // params is stored in $this->params
    $year = $this->params['year'];
    $month = $this->params['month'];
    $day = $this->params['day'];
    
    //
}

How to Route Admin Actions in CakePHP 1.2

This is how to setup the routing:

Router::connect('/admin/:controller/:action/*', array('admin'=>'true','prefix'=>'admin', 'controller'=>'controller', 'action'=>'action'));