CakePHP 3 Custom Route in Pagination - php

Question

in my routes file i define a route for my controller method
$routes->connect('/category/:cat', ['controller' => 'Categories', 'action' => 'category']);
My controller method is this
public function category(){
$this->paginate = [
'limit' => 2
];
$this->viewBuilder()->layout('newLayout');
$cat = $this->request->params['cat'];
$id = $this->Categories->findBySlug($cat)->select(['id'])->hydrate(false)->toArray();
$cid = $id[0]['id'];
$category = $this->ProductCategories
->find("all")
->select(['id', 'category_id'])
->where(["category_id" => $cid])
->contain(['Products' => function($q){
return $q->select(['id', 'sku', 'product', 'description', 'slug', 'price', 'off', 'stock', 'product_category_id'])
->where(['status' => 1])
->contain(['ProductImages' => function($q){
return $q->select(['product_id','url']);
}]);
}])->hydrate(false);
$categories = $this->paginate($category);
$this->set(compact('categories'));
$this->set('_serialize', ['categories']);
}
And my url look like this:
http://localhost/mizzoli.com/category/Designer-Saree
Now when i click on cake pagination url change to this
http://localhost/mizzoli.com/categories/category?page=2
But actual url i want is like this
http://localhost/mizzoli.com/category/Designer-Saree?page=2
And also i need to pass some extra parameter with pagination url like color, occasion etc. Please help me to get this. I did not find any solution.

Answer 1

I had a similar issue and resolved it by passing the param I needed inside the third parameter of the route definition. Like this:
$routes->connect('/category/:cat', ['controller' => 'Categories', 'action' => 'category'], ['pass' => ['cat']]);
I have #littleylv from the #cakephp IRC channel on Freenode to thank for this solution.
You can read more about passing parameters to actions via routes here: https://book.cakephp.org/3.0/en/development/routing.html#passing-parameters-to-action