Cakephp生成带有大写控制器名称的小写URL

Question

I'm using Cakephp 2 I've been re factoring my code to use the Html->url() function instead of hard coding web addresses. For those not familiar, I pass a mixed $url variable containing controller and action names.

My gut tells me I should be defining the controller according to the file name and the action according to the function name inside the controller. ie: To route to AdminsController::index() I would say

$this->Html->url(array(
    'controller'=>'Admins'
    ,'action'=>'index'
));

and that SHOULD generate for me the url

http://example.com/admins/index

Unfortunately, what it is generating for me is

http://example.com/Admins/index

*notice the uppercase "A" in admins.

The purest in me refuses to identify the controller by its inflected name because then what's the advantage of using the url helper function at all? Why wouldn't I just write out the urls myself?

Shouldn't the url function be inflecting the controller names? Isn't lower case / camel case a part of the inflection process? Is there any way I can force this behavior?

Thanks

Answer 1

If you define the following route in routes.php, you will then have your nice lowercase url :

Router::connect('/admins/index', array(
    'controller' => 'Admins', 
    'action' => 'index'
));

EDIT: other suggestion, you can also look into defining a custom route that would automatically lower case action and controller when parsing a route url: http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/development/routing.html#custom-route-classes

EDIT2: just got an other idea. You can wrap Html helper into a custom one that performs what you want.

In View/Helper/CustomHtmlHelper.php :

<?php
App::uses('HtmlHelper','View/Helper');

class CustomHtmlHelper extends HtmlHelper {

public function url($url = null, $full = false)
{
    if(is_array($url)) {
        if(isset($url['controller']) {
            $url['controller'] = strtolower($url['controller']);
        }
        if(isset($url['action']) {
            $url['action'] = strtolower($url['action']);
        }
    }
    return parent::url($url, $full);
}

In Controller/AppController.php :

public $helpers = array('Html' => array('className' => 'CustomHtml'));

I haven't tested, so there might be errors in code. But this is the idea.