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autolycus	Posted: Apr 24 2011, 12:53 AM
Newbie Group: Members Posts: 3 Member No.: 2803 Joined: 24-April 11	I am learning cakephp and my installation is as follow localhost/wordpress/cakephpapplication now I created a basic page and in the elements I created the top navigation links. I wanted to create an About us page, so under pages folder, where I have my home.ctp page, I created a page called about.ctp. Then in elements top.ctp page I entered the link as <li><a href="wordpress/pages/about">About Us</a></li> and when I click it doesnt find the page. Then I tried this <li><a href="/pages/about">About Us</a></li> and that didnt work either

Oldskool

Posted: Apr 25 2011, 09:40 AM

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You don't want to be adding links manually. Use the HtmlHelper link function instead, like this:

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<?php

echo '<li>' . $this->Html->link('About Us', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' => 'display', 'about')) . '</li>';

?>

That way Cake will figure out what the right URL to the page is, saving you a lot of headaches

Also try reading the basics/tutorial on http://book.cakephp.org/ , it covers these kind of essential things.

winniwinter

Posted: Nov 10 2011, 02:39 PM

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Hi, this post is a little bit older but I am also currently learning cakephp and stuck on a linking problem too.

I'm using this Code

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<?php echo $this->Html->link($test2['content'], $this->Html->url(array('controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'add', '?' => array('group' => 'company') ))); ?>

My Project is located under localhost/test

what I expect is that:

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/users/add?group=company

what I got is:

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/test/users/add?group=company

even if I put out the whole URL I get:

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http://localhost/test/users/add?group=company

Is the line of code wrong or do I have to customize something with routes?!

Sir P

Posted: Nov 13 2011, 03:15 PM

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Hello winniwinter,

When you use the url attribute I don't think you can pass the controller value..try not something like this (untested) ...

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echo $html->link($test2['content'], array('controller'=>'users', 'action' => 'add', '?' => array('group'=>'company')));

As I said, that is untested. A sure fire way (not very cake though) would be:

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echo $html->link($test2['content'], array("controller"=>"users", "action" => "add", "?group=company"));

Or even:

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echo $html->link($test2['content'], array("controller"=>"users", "action" => "add?group=company"));

Have a play.

Good luck.

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cindyhorneto	Posted: Apr 13 2012, 08:59 AM
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maskodook

Posted: Apr 18 2012, 11:55 PM

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hey mr

you can use this way:

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<li><a href="<?php echo Router::url('/',true); ?>/pages/about">About Us</a></li>

this code: Router::url('/',true); definiting about your base url: http://localhost/wordpress/blabla/

/pages/about : controller = pages | action = about

okey, hopefully help

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noahwilson	Posted: May 8 2013, 10:27 AM
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