CakePHP - Change Controller name in URL

Question

I have a legacy application built in CakePHP 2.2.3

One part of the application has controller file which has been named SymposiumsController.php. This resulted in URL's such as:

domain.com/symposiums
domain.com/symposiums/view/23

The problem is that 'symposiums' isn't a real (English language) word; it should be 'symposia'.

I want to rename my URL's so they are like this:
domain.com/symposia
domain.com/symposia/view/23

I tried to do this by editing app/Config/Routes.php to use this:

Router::connect('symposia/:action', array('controller' => 'symposiums'));

However all this does is redirects domain.com/symposia to domain.com/symposiums which therefore makes no difference to what the user sees in the URL.

To put it simply I don't want 'symposiums' exposed anywhere in my URLs. I want them all to use 'symposia' in it's place.

I read http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/development/routing.html but can't see how to do this. Does anyone have a solution? Surely I don't have to rename controllers/models and DB tables to do this?

I don't know if this makes a difference but I also have admin routing switched on so my SymposiumsController.php also has functions such as:

admin_add()
admin_delete()
admin_edit($id)

Any help is appreciated.

Try setting the name property in the controller, I believe the Router honours that name. — Oldskool
– Oldskool, Commented Oct 28, 2015 at 10:35
@Oldskool thanks. I tried this but unforutantely it gave an error: Missing View Error: The view for SymposiumsController::index() was not found. Error: Confirm you have created the file: app/View/Symposia/index.ctp Also tried to rename my 'Symposiums' view directory to 'Symposia' and that just then redirects back to URL's like domain.com/symposiums - which is the orignal problem — Andy F
– Andy F, Commented Oct 28, 2015 at 10:41
The old route may still be in the cache, try clearing that as well. — Oldskool
– Oldskool, Commented Oct 28, 2015 at 11:01
Caching is switched off in the application. I have Configure::write('Cache.disable', true); set in my config file. — Andy F
– Andy F, Commented Oct 28, 2015 at 11:03
Router::connect('symposia missing / in front of symposia? — floriank
– floriank, Commented Oct 28, 2015 at 11:15

Fury · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-28 16:05:57Z

1

Here is the code for this specific redirection:

Router::connect('/:controller/:action/:id',
   array('controller' => 'symposiums', 'action' => 'view', 1)
);

:controller => Give the name new name of controller e.g. symposia
:action => Give the name new name of action  e.g. view
:id => Give the name new name of controller e.g. 23

But if you need to redirect more than one action then I suggest you to rename the controller.

Note: If you rename the controller or create new Routers then you would need to make sure in the all application modify the link to new controller name.

Source: Cakephp Router

edited Oct 28, 2015 at 16:05

answered Oct 28, 2015 at 12:39

Fury

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