无法使用CakePHP设置命名参数

Question

I'm using the CakePHP pagination helper with a custom route however it seems to be ignoring the page number. I believe this is because the named parameter page doesn't exist in the request, which I've verified using debug($this->request->params); :

array(
    'plugin' => null,
    'controller' => 'things',
    'action' => 'index',
    'named' => array(),
    'pass' => array(),
    'page' => '2'
)

As you can see, it's putting page outside of the named array. This is the route I've defined for the custom pagination URLs:

Router::connect('/things/:page', array('controller' => 'skins', 'action' => 'index'), array('page' => '[0-9]+'));

Obviously, this means that no matter what page number I click on only the first results show.

How can I modify the route to insert the page into the named parameters array properly? I'd rather not directly modify $this->request->params['named'] from the controller directly.

Answer 1

According to the awesome documentation in the CakePHP Book:

If you are planning to use custom named arguments with your route, you have to make the router aware of it using the Router::connectNamed() function. So if you want the above route to match urls like /cooks/some_action/type:chef we do:

Router::connectNamed(array('type'));
Router::connect(
    '/cooks/:action/*', array('controller' => 'users')
);

http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/development/routing.html#routes-configuration