Unable to set up POST method route in CakePHP

Question

I've set up the following route in CakePHP 1.2:

Router::connect(
    "/inbound/:hash",
    array('controller' => 'profiles', 'action' => 'inbound', '[method]' => 'POST'),
    array('hash' => '[0-9a-zA-Z]+'),
    array('pass' => array('hash'))
);

Here are my request headers (via drupal_http_request()):

POST /inbound HTTP/1.0
Host: mysite.dev
User-Agent: Drupal (+http://drupal.org/)
Content-Length: 45

hash=test

However, I'm getting a 404 in response when I post. If I remove the parameter ":hash" from my route definition I get a 200. But in both cases the action in my controller does not get the passed parameter (hash).

I'm unsure what I'm doing wrong, as I appear to be doing what is in the doc.

Answer 1

The purpose of the pass parameter is to define which route parameters are being passed to the action. So what you are doing there is creating a route that connects to URLs like this:

/inbound/foo

where foo would be passed as a parameter to the controllers inbound action.

Your request however points to /inbound only, so this won't match your route as the parameter is missing, and consequently you are receiving a 404.

The data in the body of your POST request is being passed as regular POST data, ie it would be available via the controllers params property:

$this->params['form']['hash']

So either remove the hash parameter in the route and access the data via $this->params['form'], or pass the data in the URL where the hash parameter is defined:

/inbound/test

then you can access it in your controller action like this:

function inbound($hash)
{
    echo $hash;
}