Method Not Allowed on $this->request->allowMethod(['post', 'delete']);

Question

I was following this tutroial and everything is working fine, except the Deleting Articles. When I'm calling delete method:

public function delete($id)
    {
        $this->request->allowMethod(['post', 'delete']);

        $job = $this->Jobs->get($id);
        if ($this->Jobs->delete($job)) {
            $this->Flash->success(__('Job: {0} has been deleted.', h($job->name)));
            return $this->redirect(['action' => 'index']);
        }
    }

I have this error:

Method Not Allowed: $this->request->allowMethod(['post', 'delete']);

But if i remove this line from my method, it works:

$this->request->allowMethod(['post', 'delete']);

So what am I doing wrong, and what I'm missing, why in the tutorial it works with this, but in my case it doesn't. Should I additionally allow something?

Here is php code of the action:

echo $this->Html->link('Delete',    array('controller' => 'Jobs','action' => 'delete', $job->id),
                                    array('confirm' => 'Are You Sure?','class' => 'button red'));

Here is html code of the action:

<a href="/jobsfind/jobs/delete/32" class="button red" onclick="if (confirm(&quot;Are You Sure?&quot;)) { return true; } return false;">Delete</a>

Answer 1

The problem, that Your request is GET and not DELETE. So, You should use AJAX and define type of Your request:

$.ajax({
  type : 'DELETE',
  data : 'post_id=' + post_id,
  success : function (response) {
    console.log(response);
  }
})

This piece of code might help. If no - just use GET request to remove, because POST request commonly using for adding data.

Or You should provide hash with tokens that will be checking in Middleware.