4.10.2 Custom REST Routing
If the default routes created by mapResources() don't work for you, use the Router::connect() method to define a custom set of REST routes. The connect() method allows you to define a number of different options for a given URL. The first parameter is the URL itself, and the second parameter allows you to supply those options. The third parameter allows you to specify regex patters to help CakePHP identify certain markers in the specified URL.
We'll provide a simple example here, and allow you to tailor this route for your other RESTful purposes. Here's what our edit REST route would look like, without using mapResources():
Router::connect(
"/:controller/:id",
array("action" => "edit", "[method]" => "PUT"),
array("id" => "[0-9+]")
)
Router::connect("/:controller/:id",array("action" => "edit", "[method]" => "PUT"),array("id" => "[0-9+]"))
Advanced routing techniques are covered elsewhere, so we'll focus on the most important point for our purposes here: the [method] key of the options array in the second parameter. Once that key has been set, the specified route works only for that HTTP request method (which could also be GET, DELETE, etc.)
