cakephp 2.0 plugin re-routing problems

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<?
// routes.php
Router::connect('/animals/:action/*', array(
    'plugin' => 'big',
    'controller' => 'BigAnimalsController'
));

/* 
 * Now I navigate to /animals and I look at my action attribute on my <form> tag
 * How come my $form->create(array('controller' => 'animals')); call still outputs:
 * /big/animals instead of /animals
 * as the action?
 */

Yeah, it's required, I'm just trying to hide the plugin from the URL - which works. Now instead of /plugin/mycontroller I can use /mycontroller and navigate around while hiding the plugin from the URL.

But it works up until I use a plugin view, then the url's become /plugin/mycontroller - so yeah, I'm prob doing something that most people don't do. Shrug.

If it's not a user facing url I wouldn't sweat it, if it is and you're doing a full page postback you could always submit the form via ajax to mask the action url, no?

What I did to work around it was add another Router::connect to make sure /plugin/controller and /controller route to the same thing. So it works fine, I'm just a consistency whore :p

I wants all me URLz to be /controller RAWR!

A couple of reasons:

1. $form->create(array('controller' => 'animals')); is incorrect. The 1st param of the $this->Form->create() should be the Model name. Cake is simply defaulting to the controller/action it is being called from. You should do this instead: $this->Form->create('BigAnimal', array('url' => array('controller' => 'big_animals'));
2. When it comes to routing you should use the underscored names for things. Instead of BigAnimalsController it should simply be big_animals. Your Router::connect should be: Router::connect('/animals/:action/*', array('plugin' => 'big', 'controller' => 'big_animals'));