cakephp 1.2 GET URL PARAMETER

Question

development03/carts/listview/cat_id:5

I want to receive the cat_id, which is 5. I am using $this->params['catId']) to get the cat_id. However, i got this error below

Notice (8): Undefined index: catId [APP/controllers/categories_controller.php, line 384]

Controller

function getCategoryName() {

Debugger::dump($this->params['catId']);

return $this->Category->find('all', array('conditions'=>array('Category.id' => $this->params['catId'] )));
}

View

<?php 

$categories = $this->requestAction("/categories/getCategoryName");
foreach ($categories as $category) {
echo $category['Category']['name'];
} ?>

Any ideas?

Answer 1

I think you are looking for $this->params['named']['catId']

EDIT:

Apparently, in cakephp 1.2, it's $this->passedArgs['catId']

From the docs