CakePHP SimpleUrl

Tired of passing massive arrays to create links in CakePHP views or controllers ? This plugin provides a quicker way to generate url anywhere in your application.

Requires PHP 5.3+

Installation

• Clone from github : in your plugin directory type

  git clone git://github.com/kalt/simple_url.git

• Or download the archive and extract to {app}/plugins/simple_url

Setup

Simply add the following line above the declaration of the AppController class :

<?php
// {app}/app_controller.php
App::import('Lib', 'SimpleUrl.Url');

class AppController extends Controller {
...

Usage

You can now call from anywhere :

Url::plugin_controller_prefix_action($args);

Examples

/posts
echo $this->Html->url(array(
	'controller' => 'posts',
	'action' => 'index'
));

Becomes:
echo Url::posts_index();

Or even better:
echo Url::posts();

---

/posts/download/1
echo $this->Html->url(array(
	'controller' => 'posts',
	'action' => 'download',
	$post['Post']['id']
));

Becomes:
echo Url::posts_download($post['Post']['id']);

---

/posts/view/1/number-one-slug
echo $this->Html->url(array(
	'controller' => 'posts',
	'action' => 'view',
	'id' => $post['Post']['id'],
	'slug' => $post['Post']['slug']
));

Becomes:
echo Url::posts_view(array(
	'id' => $post['Post']['id'],
	'slug' => $post['Post']['slug']
));

---

/admin/posts/edit/1
echo $this->Html->url(array(
	'controller' => 'posts',
	'action' => 'edit',
	'admin' => true,
	$post['Post']['id']
));

Becomes:
echo Url::posts_admin_edit($post['Post']['id']);

---

/my_plugin/beers/drink/qty:1
echo $this->Html->url(array(
	'plugin' => 'my_plugin',
	'controller' => 'beers',
	'action' => 'drink',
	'qty' => 1
));

Becomes:
echo Url::my_plugin_beers_drink(array('qty' => 1));

---

/customer/my_plugin/beers/buy/1
echo $this->Html->url(array(
	'plugin' => 'my_plugin',
	'controller' => 'beers',
	'action' => 'buy',
	'customer' => true,
	$beer['Beer']['id']
));

Becomes:
echo Url::my_plugin_beers_customer_buy($beer['Beer']['id']);