how to remove action name from URL in cakephp2

Question

may be duplicate but I don\'t get any proper answer or help

actually I want to do like:

my current URL is : http://mysite.com/MyController/view/page1

Answer 1

Try the following code for your controller, Here am using GroupsController as an example

You add this in your app\Config\routes.php

Router::connect('/groups/:slugParam', array('controller' => 'groups', 'action' => 'index'), array('slugParam' => '[a-zA-Z0-9]+'));

This should redirect all requests of the form

http://www.site.com/groups/* to http://www.site.com/groups/index

( * => whatever comes after the controller name )

So now i have to alter my default index function in GroupsController to reflect this change

request->params);   this where all data is intercepted...
            if(isset($this->request->params['slugParam']) && !empty($this->request->params['slugParam'])) {

                // i have a slug field in groups databsae and hence instead of id am using slug field to identify the post.
                $data = $this->Group->findBySlug($this->request->params['slugParam']);
                $this->set('group', $data);
                $this->render('/groups/view');
            } 
    }
}
?>