Administration with Cake 3 - Prefix

Question

i'm actually at test CakePHP3, and i don't know how do a administration, with Cake 2, in Core we can write

Configure::write('Routing.prefixes', array('admin'));

But with CakePHP3, we don't have Core, and in documentation i don't find this code ! I try the routing

Router::prefix('admin', function ($routes) { 
  //My route   
  $routes->fallbacks('InflectedRoute');
});

but without success !

Answer 1

Three Steps:

• In config/routes.php: add the following to the end of the file:

  Router::prefix('Admin', function ($routes) {
      $routes->fallbacks('InflectedRoute');
  });
  

• Create src/Controller/Admin and move your UsersController.php file (which you would have otherwise created in the upper-level Controller) into it. Add the following line right after the <?php opening tag

  namespace App\Controller\Admin;
  

• Create the views. Create a Template/Users/Admin folder and dump all the add.ctp, edit.ctp, view.ctp files into it.

The Admin prefix will be used to refer to the admin section. Replace Admin if you want a different prefix.

I just found this is the best way of doing it at the moment. If anyone has better way then please share it.

Answer 2

I found the solutions for admin prefix. Please have a look on the following code:

in app/config/routes.php

Router::prefix('admin', function($routes) {
$routes->connect('/', ['controller'=>'Users','action'=>'login']);
$routes->fallbacks('InflectedRoute');
});

Make Admin folder inside Controller src: src/Controller/Admin/UsersController.php

add this line of code in UsersController.php

namespace App\Controller\Wcbadmin;

Now make the view file: src/Template/Admin/Users/login.ctp

Answer 3

In cakephp 3.x change routing concept, Configure::write('Routing.prefixes', array('admin')); If u want to use it, Please make a admin folder inside ur controller folder and write a same name controller name in this folder. If u want to admin_index() function like 2.x then u write only index() function in admin folder controller .

Note one things, in your router.php add this code

Router::prefix('admin', function ($routes) { 
  //My route   
  $routes->fallbacks('InflectedRoute');
}); 

Answer 4

Hey not sure if anyone ever got you the answer you needed. I was also having an issue getting prefix routing to work. I found that all of these solutions, even the CakePHP 3.X cookbook left out some details. Below is exactly what I did. I am using version 3.1.3.

In my routes.php file I added

Router::prefix('admin', function ($routes) {
     // All routes here will be prefixed with `/admin`
     // And have the prefix => admin route element added.
     $routes->connect('/', ['controller' => 'Index', 'action' => 'index']);    
     $routes->fallbacks('DashedRoute');
});

This is from the cookbook on prefix routing. All I changed was changing the controller from "Pages" to "Index".

I then created a controller located at src/Controller/Admin/IndexController.php

The contents of my controller were originally this (beware this part was incorrect, I correct it afterwards)

<?php

namespace App\Controller; // INCORRECT NAMESPACE

// INCORRECTLY MISSING use Cake\Controller\AppController
use Cake\Network\Exception\NotFoundException;
use Cake\View\Exception\MissingTemplateException;
use Cake\Event\Event;

class IndexController extends AppController{

    public function index(){
        $this->set('title_for_layout', 'Admin Dashboard');
    } // END INDEX ACTION


}

After receiving an error message saying "Class IndexController not found" I then had to change the file to the following. I found this out by reading the entire error message. This was the information that I did not see in the cookbook or any of the answers you have received.

<?php

namespace App\Controller\Admin; // THIS IS THE CORRECT NAME SPACE

use App\Controller\AppController; // HAVE TO USE App\Controller\AppController
use Cake\Network\Exception\NotFoundException;
use Cake\View\Exception\MissingTemplateException;
use Cake\Event\Event;

class IndexController extends AppController{

    public function index(){
        $this->set('title_for_layout', 'Admin Dashboard');
    } // END INDEX ACTION


}