Lithium continuation route examples

routes.php

<?php
/**
 * Continuation routing examples. Handles URLs in the following forms:
 *
 * /posts
 * /en/posts
 * /admin/posts
 * /admin/en/posts
 * /admin/en/posts.json
 * /admin/en/posts/4ef16ccc7f8b9aa331000064.json
 * /admin/posts/4ef16ccc7f8b9aa331000064.json
 * /en/posts/edit/4ef16ccc7f8b9aa331000064
 * /posts/4ef16ccc7f8b9aa331000064
 *
 * ...as well as many, many other permutations.
 */

use lithium\net\http\Router;
use lithium\core\Environment;
use lithium\action\Dispatcher;

/**
 * Add a Dispatcher rule to rewrite actions with prefixes whenever the `admin` flag is encountered
 * in parameters returned from routing.
 */
Dispatcher::config(['rules' => [
	'admin' => ['action' => 'admin_{:action}']
]]);

/**
 * Continuation route for admin requests. Instead of dispatching to `{Controller}::{action}()`,
 * matching routes will dispatch to `{Controller}::admin_{action}()`, per the dispatch rules
 * defined above.
 */
Router::connect('/admin/{:args}', ['admin' => true], [
	'continue' => true, 'persist' => ['controller', 'admin']
]);

/**
 * Continuation routes for locale detection. Make sure to include `bootstrap/g11n.php`
 * and configure your locales.
 */
Router::connect(
 	'/{:locale:' . join('|', array_keys(Environment::get('locales'))) . '}/{:args}',
	[],
	['continue' => true]
);

/**
 * Static pages.
 */
Router::connect('/', 'Pages::view');
Router::connect('/pages/{:args}', 'Pages::view');

/**
 * Handling API output formats.
 */
Router::connect('/{:args}.{:type:json|rss|xml}', [], ['continue' => true]);

/**
 * MongoDB document routes.
 */
Router::connect('/{:controller}/{:id:[0-9a-f]{24}}', ['action' => 'view']);
Router::connect('/{:controller}/{:action}/{:id:[0-9a-f]{24}}');

/**
 * Default route.
 */
Router::connect('/{:controller}/{:action}/{:args}');

?>

Nice example! Is it possible to make admin routes to be handled by separate controllers under a app\controllers\admin namespace?

instead of setting action, try setting "controller".

Dispatcher::config(array('rules' => array(
    'admin' => array('controller' => 'admin\{:controller}')
)));

You have to give it the full namespace

Dispatcher::config(array('rules' => array(
    'admin' => array('controller' => 'app\controllers\admin\{:controller}Controller')
)));