How can I access a GET request in CAKEPHP?

Question

How can I access a GET request in CAKEPHP ?

If I am passing a variable in the url

http://samplesite.com/page?key1=value1&key2=value2 

Should I use $_GET or $this->params to get the values in controller? What is the standard in CAKEPHP ?

Answer 1

In CakePHP 2.0 this appears to have changed. According to the documentation you can access $this->request->query or $this->request['url'].

// url is /posts/index?page=1&sort=title $this->request->query['page'];  // You can also access it via array access $this->request['url']['page']; 

http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/controllers/request-response.html

Answer 2

The standard way to do this in Cake is to use $this->params.

$value1 = $this->params['url']['key1']; $value2 = $this->params['url']['key2']; 

According to the CakePHP book, "the most common use of $this->params is to access information that has been handed to the controller via GET or POST operations."

See here.