Why does CakePHP producing those URLs
<server>/Reporting/OnlineBanking/index/page:1 instead of
<server>/Reporting/OnlineBanking/index?page=1 There are alot of trouble with this using relative paths out of JavaScript for example.
And is there an option to change it?
By default, all parameters in CakePHP are named parameters (url fragments like /foo:bar/). This also applies, by default, to pagination arguments.
To use get arguments for pagination params - you can do that by setting appropriate config:
public $paginate = array( 'paramType' => 'querystring' ); This will generate urls of the form:
/the/url?page=1&limit=10 Instead of:
/the/url/page:1/limit:10 string is extremely fragilePreviously you mentioned using urls like get_backend_requests in javascript.
You will still find problems if you do that even using get arguments of pagination. That's because even for the "same" url, the result can be different:
/the/url => /the/get_backend_requests /the/url/ => /the/url/get_backend_requests Instead - specify urls in javascript as absolute urls:
$.ajax({ type: 'POST', url: "/xyz/get_backend_requests", ... If you're app is sometimes (or always) installed in a subfolder, you can account for that with a simple function:
e.g. in your html/layout put:
<html> ... <script> function url(url) { return <?php $base = rtrim(Router::url('/'), '/'); if ($base) { echo "'$base' + "; } ?>url; } </script> Which will output:
<html> ... <script> function url(url) { return '/subfolder' + url; } </script> $.ajax({ type: 'POST', url: url("/xyz/get_backend_requests"), // becomes the string "/subfolder/xyz/get_backend_requests" ... 