CakePHP route settings connect and parseExtensions

In order for your route to process different types of files, you need to add a line in your route configuration file: connect function definition

Connect ($ route, $ default = array (), $ params = array ())

Returns this object's routes array. Returns false if there are no routes available.

$ Route	String	An empty string, or a route string "/"	Required	(No default)
$ Default	Array	NULL or an array describing the default route	Optional	Array ()
$ Params	Array	An array matching the named elements in the route to regular expressions which that element shoshould match.	Optional	Array ()

Connect example application

Router: connect ('/', array ('controller' => 'pages', 'Action' => 'display', 'home '));

When you access siteurl/or siteurl/index. php/, the controller is pages, the action is display, and the view template file is/app/views/pages/home. ctp.

In addition, the connect function supports pattern matching. For example:

Router: connect ('/pages/*', array ('controller' => 'Page', 'Action' => 'display '));

Meaning: any website of siteurl/pages/* or siteurl/index. php/pages/* matches? Controller = pages & action = display.

ParseExtensions file extension

Router: parseExtensions ()

In order for your route to process different types of files, you need to add a line in your route configuration file:

Router: parseExtensions ('html', 'RSS ', 'xml ');

This tells the route to remove the matching file extension and then process the remaining part.

If you want to create a URL, such as/page/title-of-page.html, you must create your route as described below:

Router::connect('/page/:title',    array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' => 'view'),    array('pass' => array('title')    ));

Then you can create and access the link pointing to the route as follows.

Conclusion

The above are translated from the official CakePHP API and Cook Book.