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Is it possible in CakePHP to have URL aliases in routes.php? Or by what other means can achieve something equivalent:

Lets assume I have some paginated views. Among the possible orderings there are particular ones I want to bind to a simple URL. E.g.:

• http://example.com/headlines => http://example.com/posts/listView/page:1/sort:Post.created/direction:desc
• http://example.com/hottopics => http://example.com/posts/listView/page:1/sort:Post.view_count/direction:desc etc.

How do I add parameters to a Router::connect()? Pseudo code:

Router::connect('/'.__('headlines',true),
        array(
        'controller' => 'posts',
        'action' => 'listView'
        'params' => 'page:1/sort:Post.created/direction:desc',
        )
);