Apache named parameter problem
15 May 2007
I just ran across a rather curious problem, which proved to be pretty fatal. I thought I'd jot a note down so I don't forget and so it can be found by others - it also forms reason #6538 why not to develop with a windows machine :).
The Problem
With a standard (1.2) cake install, the colon (:) will be used as the default separator for named arguments; if you decide...
Making the most of the router
03 May 2007
The router is the part of Cake which takes your url and splits it up so the dispatcher knows which controller and action to run. In 1.1 that's about all it does, but in 1.2 the router also works the other way around too - you can feed it an array of controller, action and paramters and it will tell you which url that corresponds to. All of cakes url using/generating methods ...