I think you're lokking for "elements" http://manual.cakephp.org/chapter/views in section 1, subchapter Elements
On 22 mar, 15:12, "beetlecube" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HI, I'm using cake v1.2 > > My question relates to content_for_layout (I think), and for the > past hour I've been reading the results of a group search for this > search term, but couldn't find an answer. > > My views are more or less PHP code that iterates through the results > of an amazon product lookup. And really, the code is the same, except > for the very small that changes from view to view... and that is the > amazon searchindex such as 'books', 'dvd', etc.. > > So I took out the generic php look-up and "looping" code and put that > it in a file called generic.php. (I don't know where to put that). > And now, each of my views is stripped down to just: > > == books/index.thtml== > $searchindex = 'Books' > $display_string = "best selling books"; > > ==dvds/index.thtml== > $searchindex = 'dvds' > $display_string = "best selling DVD's"; > > However, I have no clue on how to get that generic.php "included". > > I tried the obvious thing, i.e., in each view, just put "include > 'generic.php', below the top two php assignments but of course I > didn't expect that to work, because of the way that cakephp is built > -- it makes you use its own keywords. > > Is there an easy way of doing this. Should I be editing the layout/ > default.thml file? > > Thanks for reading this, > Steve --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
