> 1/ Having a generic home page, leading to different pages and models
> (users profile, content admin)
I am not sure exactly what you want to know. Are you talking about
generating a menu-system or a single page with several sections?
> 2/ Having a stats module which displays (on one or several pages)
> statistics on data stored on several and unrelated model
You have a few options when it comes to getting scattered data on the
same page.
There is requestAction(). It can help you run and render snippets from
other controllers.
There is renderElement(). Elements are "only" views and you need to
load any data to be used in the current controller.
Both can be used to render an overview-page with stats or other data
from different parts of your application. You get data from many
models by either "using" al of them:
var $uses = array('Users','Pages');
or by importing them in a specific method if you only need it
available in a single method:
App::import('Model', 'Users');
> My idea, based on a non-MVC driven experience, will have to build a
> generic controler that will forward requests to different methods,
> depending on the parameters passed to the URI, ie something like
> "page.php?page=statistics&action=view&item=users" but applied to
> CakePHP.
This is one thing CakePHP does for you, and does it very well. Read up
on Routes and how to set up special routing if the default is not what
you need. The default is to have the first part of the url represent
the controller, the second the action and any others representing
parameters passed to the action. But you can switch this around and
parse urls in all sorts of ways.
http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/custom-urls-from-the-site-root
If you are doing a CMS or something with a main controller displaying
"pages", then you can set this up using routes. You may also want to
search out some info on slug-urls which makes gogle happy and may also
be more readable to visitors.
http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/slug-behavior
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