How to create a sub-domain in CakePHP?

Question

CakePHP version-2.5.5

My domain name is http://www.thechatfun.com

Profile page link - http://www.thechatfun.com/users/profile

Chat page

Answer 1

Follow your context, inside this directory: /lib/Cake/Routing/Route , create file SubdomainRoute.php with content:

class SubdomainRoute extends CakeRoute {

    public function match($params) {
        $subdomain = isset($params['subdomain']) ? $params['subdomain'] : null;
        unset($params['subdomain']);
        $path = parent::match($params);
        if ($subdomain) {
            $path = 'http://' . $subdomain . '.thechatfun.com' . $path;
        }
        return $path;
    }
}

When creating links you could do the following to make links pointing at other subdomains.

echo $this->Html->link(
    'Profile',
     array('subdomain' => 'profile', 'controller' => 'Users', 'action' => 'profile')
);

echo $this->Html->link(
    'Chats',
     array('subdomain' => 'chat', 'controller' => 'Chats', 'action' => 'index')
);

Reference: http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/appendices/new-features-in-cakephp-2-0.html#routes-can-return-full-urls