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Cakephp inflection, how to change a plural to a singular?

I have a controller called "Shops", this is the way the routing system looks for it, however I want to be able to called this controller and what not 'shop'.

Is it possible to do this?

Solution

  • It sounds like you are just trying to just change the URL from example.com/shops to example.com/shop ... is this correct? If so edit app/config/routes.php to include the following line:

    Router::connect('/shop/*', array('controller' => 'shops'));

    Note: The above solution is probably what you are looking for, however if you intended to make CakePHP never pluralise 'shop' to 'shops' then the following is how you do that:

    You'd edit app/config/inflections.php and modify the $uninflectedPlural array to include 'shop'.

    For example:

    $uninflectedPlural = array('shop');

    From then on your controller will be: app/controllers/shop_controller.php with "class ShopController extends AppController"

    And your model will stay as per usual with app/models/shop.php with "class Shop extends AppModel"