How to change url pagination in cakephp?

Question

I want my url to change from this
/examinations/getchoices/page:2

to this
/examinations/getchoices/item/2

I wonder how to do this. I've already tried changing in the routes.php. I've tried the tutorial in this site . The page content doesn't change when I click prev or next links.

This is what i got in the url
/examinations/getchoices/ 2/ 2

My version of cake is 2.1.

Your help will be much appreciated. I've been stuck with this for 2 days already. Thank you.

Answer 1

You can define custom routes.

http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/development/routing.html

eg

Router::connect(
  ' /examinations/getchoices/item/:number',
  array('controller' => 'examinations', 'action' => 'getchoices'),
  array('pass' => array('number'))
);

let me know if i can assist you more