Prefix Routing > Forum Main> CakePhp > Prefix Routing

Extracted from http://book.cakephp.org/view/544/Prefix-Routing

Many applications require an administration section where privileged users can make changes. This is often done through a special URL such as /admin/users/edit/5. In CakePHP, admin routing can be enabled from within the core configuration file by setting the admin path for Routing.admin.

Configure::write('Routing.admin', 'admin');

1. Configure::write('Routing.admin', 'admin');

In your controller, any action with an admin_ prefix will be called. Using our users example, accessing the url /admin/users/edit/5 would call the method admin_edit of our UsersController passing 5 as the first parameter.

You can map the url /admin to your admin_index action of pages controller using following route

Router::connect('/admin', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' => 'index', 'admin' => true)); 

1. Router::connect