Just finished reading the entire e-mail. Thanks, much clearer.
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Jeremy Burns | Class Outfit < [email protected]> wrote: > 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... > > -- > Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials > http://tv.cakephp.org > Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help > others with their CakePHP related questions. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] For more options, visit this group > at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php > > > -- > Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials > http://tv.cakephp.org > Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help > others with their CakePHP related questions. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] For more options, visit this group > at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php > -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
