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    copied!<p>I am trying to make a simple redirector controller in CakePHP. I'd like the URL to be of the form:</p> <pre><code>http://example.com/redirector/&lt;numeric id&gt;/&lt;url to redirect to&gt; </code></pre> <p>For example,</p> <pre><code>http://example.com/redirector/1/http://www.google.com </code></pre> <p>The URL that I need to redirect could be more complex, of course, including slashes, parameters and anchors.</p> <p>I can't seem to be able to figure out how to write the route configuration so that my action would look something like:</p> <pre><code>class RedirectsController extends AppController { function myredirectaction($id, $url) { $this-&gt;autoRender = false; $this-&gt;redirect($url); } </code></pre> <p>It seems like whatever I try, the "/"'s in the url-to-redirect-to confuses my route attempt and splits the URL into pieces, and this no longer matches my action definition. What should I do?</p> <p>I am new to PHP and CakePHP, so any advice you can give is appreciated.</p> <p><strong>Update:</strong></p> <p>So instead of the example URL above, it has been URL-escaped to look like this:</p> <pre><code>http://example.com/redirector/1/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com </code></pre> <p>However, my routing is still not working. Here's what I have in routes.php:</p> <pre><code>Router::connect( '/redirector/:id/:url', array('controller' =&gt; 'redirects', 'action' =&gt; 'myredirectaction'), array( 'id' =&gt; '[0-9]+', 'url' =&gt; 'http.*' ) ); </code></pre> <p>This is what I get when I try that URL:</p> <pre><code>Warning (2): array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array [CORE/cake/dispatcher.php, line 301] Code | Context $fromUrl = "redirector/1/http://www.google.com" $params = array( "pass" =&gt; array(), "named" =&gt; array(), "id" =&gt; "1", "url" =&gt; "http://www.google.com", "plugin" =&gt; null, "controller" =&gt; "redirects", "action" =&gt; "myredirectaction", "form" =&gt; array() ) $namedExpressions = array( "Action" =&gt; "index|show|add|create|edit|update|remove|del|delete|view|item", "Year" =&gt; "[12][0-9]{3}", "Month" =&gt; "0[1-9]|1[012]", "Day" =&gt; "0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01]", "ID" =&gt; "[0-9]+", "UUID" =&gt; "[A-Fa-f0-9]{8}-[A-Fa-f0-9]{4}-[A-Fa-f0-9]{4}-[A-Fa-f0-9]{4}-[A-Fa-f0-9]{12}" ) $Action = "index|show|add|create|edit|update|remove|del|delete|view|item" $Year = "[12][0-9]{3}" $Month = "0[1-9]|1[012]" $Day = "0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01]" $ID = "[0-9]+" $UUID = "[A-Fa-f0-9]{8}-[A-Fa-f0-9]{4}-[A-Fa-f0-9]{4}-[A-Fa-f0-9]{4}-[A-Fa-f0-9]{12}" $url = array( "url" =&gt; "/redirector/1/http://www.google.com" ) array_merge - [internal], line ?? Dispatcher::parseParams() - CORE/cake/dispatcher.php, line 301 Dispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/cake/dispatcher.php, line 118 [main] - APP/webroot/index.php, line 88 </code></pre> <p>And more warnings from my action since it did not get the two expected arguments.</p> <p>Of course, I've changed my action to urldecode($url) before using the $url.</p>
 

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