Avoid url escaping in links

Question

I had to make my custom pagination helper in CakePHP because the one that cake provides didn't suit my needs. Still, everything was fine about the data retrieval and per-page grouping, but now when I want to generate the links on the bottom of the page (say, < previous , next > and the numbering), I can't make the links work as intended.

I found that the problem is the HtmlHelper escaping the href portion of the links, so when I generate a link via $this->Html->link() like:

$this->Html->link('Next >',array('controller' => 'topic','action' => 'list','page:2'));

It outputs:

<a href="http://exam.ple/topic/list/page%3A2">Next &gt;</a>

Putting escape = false as an option didn't work either.

So is there a way to avoid escaping the url in links in HtmlHelper?

Answer 1

It should be:

$this->Html->link('Next >', 
    array('controller' => 'topic', 'action' => 'list', 'page' => '2'), 
    array('escape' => false));

Named params need to be properly added as key value pairs.

This is also in the docs.