I am currently using cake's routes config in order to set up admin views, different from that of the non-admin user. I read the routing chapter of the documentation(cake's), and stumbled upon the prefix routing. Which I thought that it is something I need to use, to accomplish what I need. So I started it with setting up the config/core.php as suggested, and uncommented this
Configure::write('Routing.prefixes', array('admin'));
Then, I added a route in the routes.php :
Router::connect('/admin', array('controller' => 'donors', 'action' => 'index', 'admin' => true));
From what I understood, with the above set, I can define a specific action for the admin, names like : admin_index or admin_view, etc. .
So my AppController has a component set like this :
public $components = array( 'DebugKit.Toolbar', 'Session', 'Auth' => array( 'loginRedirect' => array( 'controller' => 'donors', 'action' => 'index' ), 'authError' => 'Access Denied', 'logoutRedirect' => array( 'controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'login' ), 'authorize' => array('Controller') ) );
So when a non-admin user logs in he should be redirected to 'donors/index', and when the admin logs in I want to redirect him to 'donors/admin_index'.. How can i do this ?
I tried this :
public function beforeFilter(){ if(isset($this->params['admin'])){ $this->layout = 'stafflayout'; $this->Auth->loginRedirect = array( 'controller'=>'donors', 'action'=>'index', 'prefix'=>'admin', 'admin'=>true ); }
And in the process of testing it out, at first glance I though it worked. but the URL does not change like 'donor/admin_index .. and am still being redirected to donors/index or equivalent, simply to /donors... Why is this not working ?
(seconndary question)Also during the process of testing this out, I changed my the controller and actions of the Auth component LoginRedirect to
'controller'=>'posts'
and
'action'=>'index'
other then 'donors', 'index', and when I logged in, I still got redirected to donors/index.. were it should have redirected me to 'posts/index'
Anyone can help me on these two issues? Primary questions is more important though!