Thanks both of you, appreciate your help! I saw mention of Elements,
but I thought it was related html elements. Understood now.
On Mar 22, 9:32 am, "BlenderStyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, elements are the way to go with this. Think of elements as pieces
> you can use in your views. If memory serves me correctly, all the
> variables in the view should be available in your element as well. So,
> if you have a controller action that uses $this->set('variable', 'some
> information'), $variable will be available in your view and in your
> element.
>
> On Mar 22, 7:40 am, "djiize" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > 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
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