Removing ID from CakePHP URL?

Question

Hey guys! Working on a new Cake app and wondering if there is anyway for me to remove the ID-in-URL routing from Cake. Perhaps by passing the ID in POST somehow? Having the ID p

Answer 1

"Shoddy"? It's standard practice and a perfectly fine solution to have ids in the URL. Look at the URL of your question:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4638262/removing-id-from-cakephp-url
                                   ^^^^^^^
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Also, there's absolutely nothing unsafe about showing an id in a URL. It's just a number that doesn't mean anything. If a user can do something "bad" only by knowing this id, your app is broken and insecure, not the id-passing mechanism.

Trying to work around this scheme means working around the fundamental principle of the HTML protocol and opens up a whole new can of worms.