Transfer method for Cakephp

Sometimes we need to redirect the request to a different controller and different action but do not want to change the current incoming url, which the "redirect" does but we actually want to hide our internal dispatching flow from clients, then we need a function like this:

//Run another action on different controller function transfer($url, $extra){ //Usage is similar to requestAction: //$this->transfer(array('controller'=>$controller, 'action'=>$action), array('pass'=>array($parameter))); $extra = array_merge(array('return', 'bare'=>null), $extra); echo $this->requestAction($url, $extra); //Turn off autoRender to prevent rendering the original layout and view $this->autoRender=false; }

 

put it under a customized AppController and that's it. It is called "transfer" just because it is similar to the Transfer method from ASP.NET.