CakePHP: Use post title as the slug for view method

Question

I have been trying to do the following method to create urls like:

domain.com/portfolio/This_is_a_test_post

function view ( $title )
{           


        

Answer 1

It does not work because you are applying the Inflector::slug function to the name of the column.. Try the other way around.., add a slug column to your post, and create the slug when you add the post using the Inflector, try something like this when you add your post:

$this->data['Post']['slug'] = Inflector::slug($this->data['Post']['title']);

and on your controller, do this:

function view($slug = null) {
    if (is_null($slug)) {
        $this->cakeError('error404');
    } else {
        $post = $this->Post->findBySlug($slug);
        $this->set(compact('post'));
    }
}

that should do the trick.. i hope it helps..