diff --git a/cake/libs/router.php b/cake/libs/router.php
index 61b5b2a77..c3894ea36 100644
--- a/cake/libs/router.php
+++ b/cake/libs/router.php
@@ -981,6 +981,27 @@ class Router {
 		return $out;
 	}
 
+/**
+ * Reverses a parsed parameter array into a string. Works similarily to Router::url(), but
+ * Since parsed URL's contain additional 'pass' and 'named' as well as 'url.url' keys.
+ * Those keys need to be specially handled in order to reverse a params array into a string url.
+ *
+ * @param array $param The params array that needs to be reversed.
+ * @return string The string that is the reversed result of the array
+ * @access public
+ */
+	function reverse($params) {
+		$pass = $params['pass'];
+		$named = $params['named'];
+		$url = $params['url'];
+		unset($params['pass'], $params['named'], $params['url'], $url['url']);
+		$params = array_merge($params, $pass, $named);
+		if (!empty($url)) {
+			$params['q'] = $url;
+		}
+		return Router::url($params);
+	}
+
 /**
  * Normalizes a URL for purposes of comparison
  *
diff --git a/cake/tests/cases/libs/router.test.php b/cake/tests/cases/libs/router.test.php
index d6a18a59c..02d590c3a 100644
--- a/cake/tests/cases/libs/router.test.php
+++ b/cake/tests/cases/libs/router.test.php
@@ -1942,6 +1942,45 @@ class RouterTest extends CakeTestCase {
 		$result = Router::parse('/test');
 		$this->assertEqual($result, $expected);
 	}
+
+/**
+ * test reversing parameter arrays back into strings.
+ *
+ * @return void
+ */
+	function testRouterReverse() {
+		$params = array(
+			'controller' => 'posts',
+			'action' => 'view',
+			'pass' => array(1),
+			'named' => array(),
+			'url' => array()
+		);
+		$result = Router::reverse($params);
+		$this->assertEqual($result, '/posts/view/1');
+
+		$params = array(
+			'controller' => 'posts',
+			'action' => 'index',
+			'pass' => array(1),
+			'named' => array('page' => 1, 'sort' => 'Article.title', 'direction' => 'desc'),
+			'url' => array()
+		);
+		$result = Router::reverse($params);
+		$this->assertEqual($result, '/posts/index/1/page:1/sort:Article.title/direction:desc');
+
+		Router::connect('/:lang/:controller/:action/*', array(), array('lang' => '[a-z]{3}'));
+		$params = array(
+			'lang' => 'eng',
+			'controller' => 'posts',
+			'action' => 'view',
+			'pass' => array(1),
+			'named' => array(),
+			'url' => array('url' => 'eng/posts/view/1')
+		);
+		$result = Router::reverse($params);
+		$this->assertEqual($result, '/eng/posts/view/1');
+	}
 }
 
 /**