By default, Cake uses layouts and pages located in /cake/libs/view and the
cake.generic.ccs in /app/webroot/css (in 1.3). This is great when you have just
fired up Cake but not sustainable when you want to upgrade your version of Cake
(which you do by replacing the entire contents of the /cake folder). So you
should never just rely on those files. One of the first things I recommend you
do when starting a new app is:
- copy /cake/libs/view/layouts/default.ctp to /app/view/layouts
- copy /cake/libs/view/pages/home.ctp to /app/views/pages
- rename /app/webroot/css/cake.generic.css to something more relevant
- change the reference to the generic stylesheet in your new
/app/views/layouts/default.ctp by changing this line: echo
$this->Html->css('cake.generic'); to echo
$this->Html->css('your_new_stylesheet_name');
Now Cake will use those by default and you can change them to your heart's
content. At first it will appear as a standard Cake app until you customise it.
As its name suggests, default.ctp is the default layout. The output of your
view (e.g. /app/views/pages/home.ctp) file will appear where the variable
$content_for_layout appears. So you can put your own div structure, layout
elements, custom headers/footers and whatever you choose around it. You can
strip it all out or pimp it up. The variables $title_for_layout and
$scripts_for_layout have their own meaning and purpose, so you should retain
them. When you change your new css styles, the appearance will change too. You
can happily remove the standard footer and the sql_dump (although you might
want to place it inside a check for debug > 0 so it appears in dev but not in
production).
Now your app lives entirely within the /app folder so updating your Cake
version is (generally) as simple as replacing the /cake folder with the latest
version.
Hope that helps.
Jeremy Burns
Class Outfit
http://www.classoutfit.com
On 17 Oct 2011, at 20:07, Yves S. Garret wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I came across this problem. I googled it and found this solution.
>
> http://ask.cakephp.org/questions/view/removing_cakephp_header_footer
>
> And, maybe it's due to this cold/headache, but I can't make any sense of
> what's what in the entire code-tree. It seems like changing something like
> this would make the most sense in the app directory (after all, different
> apps might use different headers and footers). How can I specify and set
> this? What role does $content_for_layout play in this?
>
> Confused as heck right now...
>
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