Calling a function in Magento Admin Module Controller via URL - php

I was under the impression (after viewing some tutorials on Alan Storms site about Models) that I should be able to call a function on my controller via a url like so:
http://www.localhost.com:8080/magento/index.php/mymodule/adminhtml_mymodule/someFunction
and in the controller declare:
public function someFunctionAction()
{
Mage::log("Im In");
}
The problem is that nothing is being logged. Is there something special with admin modules that prevents this from working?
Note: I haven't included the rest of my code for declaring the module as everything is working fine, I am merely curious about calling the controller function via the Url in this way but please let me know if you require more information in order to answer it properly.

You can't call your action with the direct URL, because Magento uses nonces in the admin section. You can read about this here: http://alanstorm.com/magento_admin_hello_world_revisited , look for the "Magento Admin URLs"-section.

Try this, if your controller name is poductController than in URL use product
http://www.localhost.com:8080/magento/index.php/mymodule/product/someFunction

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Use cURL to login and then call the function
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I'm building a simple CMS using Code Igniter version 3.0.0
The site's URLs are all customizable by the user and so do not follow the standard MVC structure of /controller/method/parameter-1/parameter-2/. Instead, all frontend traffic gets directed to PublicController's index method. This method searches the database for the current URL to return the correct page, and also the page type. Each page type corresponds to a controller.
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I can't use the redirect() method because that would change the URL in the browser window and cause an un-need additional page request.
if you look at the url /about/who-we-are/
about is the controller and who-we-are is a function in the controller that loads one or more views.
The same for /locations/stores/
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read the documentation and it will be easy to understand.
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I am using SS 3.02 and have made a lots of modification in the core files. I am facing the issue that I am trying to set the color of the navigation background dynamically. This works fine for pages other than security/login page. Suppose I am getting the value in $navbgcolor, this shows up well on home page or about us page or any other page. But this does not show up on the Security/login page. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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Here is a way you could apply your code to all controllers, without touching the core:
<?php
class MyControllerExtension extends Extension {
public function onAfterInit() {
//... Your code here...
}
}
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If you're using YAML (recommended)
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extensions:
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I created my controller called services with following code:
<?php
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class services extends REST_Controller {
function Teams_get(){
$teamNames=$this->team_model->getTeamNames();
$this->response($teamNames);
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TeamModel is autoloaded in my autoload.php. When I want to run Teams_get method in my browser result is:
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I read here that I should change REST_Controler.php configuration file, but this change should only be done if POST methods are not working.
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What's wrong here?
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I think this is a route issue but I'm not sure. I have a page with this URL:
siteurl.com/kowmanger/titles/titles/edit/$id
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UPDATE :
So I decided to change my titles controller so that there's a edit and add function inside of the titles controller that way they dont' have separate controllers when they are in fact methods.
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kansasoutalwwrestling.com/kowmanager/titles/titles/add - addnew form
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I don't have any routes set up so far for this. For some reason though I"m getting the same page for both of these page.
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(right link url) kansasoutalwwrestling.com/kowmanager/titles/add -
addnew form
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Also I need to set up a route so that if the correct edit link is accessed it sees the id attached to the end of the url and it'll accept it so that I can do a my database query to get the title data.
UPDATE: So to reiterate I have a module(subfolder) called titles. Inside of the module I have a controller called titles and inside of that controller I have 3 functions called index(), add(), edit().
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Possible answer based on your post, not one hundred percent your entire structure but if i had to guess based off the post I would try this as my routes first..
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domain.com/controller/methode/param1/param2/param3
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siteurl.com/kowmanger/titles/titles/edit/$id
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class Kownmanger extends CI_Controller
{
public function titles($titles, $action, $id)
{
}
}
In case you are using sub-folders in your controllers folder, what I have just said will change, Could you please tell us what's your directory structure ?

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