On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Turnquist, Jonah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hey I'm just starting to learn cakephp and have a question... I was
> wondering what the best way to handle static pages and the home page
> is. This is what I've done:
>
> In the routes file I added:
> Router::connect('/', array('controller' => 'pages'));
>
> And I commented out these two lines:
> //Router::connect('/', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' =>
> 'display', 'home'));
> //Router::connect('/pages/*', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action'
> => 'display'));
>
> So now the top directory (the home page) routes to PagesController-
>>index(); and it uses the view pages/index.ctp
> Furthermore if I want a static /about page I create the route:
> Router::connect('/about', array('controller' => 'pages/about'));
> And now /about routes to PagesController->about(); and uses the view
> at pages/about.ctp
>
> Using this method I have to create a new route for every static page
> as well as add an event for each static page in the PagesController.
>
One way i handled this was to create a route for each page, like you
have, but I used wildcards for anything within a directory
Router::connect('/contact', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' =>
'display', 'contact'));
Router::connect('/links', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' =>
'display', 'links'));
/* /about is a directory so i have an explicit route for index and a wildcard
*/
Router::connect('/about', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' =>
'display', 'about/index'));
Router::connect('/about/*', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' =>
'display', 'about'));
I then modified pagesController::display() like:
/* Allows for custom actions
*/
if (method_exists($this, $page))
{
$this->$page();
}
$this->render(join('/', $path));
This way, I could have many nested directories. I just had to specify
the index page for each directory.
It wasn't a big deal for that site because there were very few static
pages and many controllers. If you plan on adding static pages all the
time this might be tedious or prone to mistakes. If I was doing it
over again I might approach it differently but this seems to work
fine. The current site I'm working on is more CMS-like, with all
content in the DB.
> Also on an unrelated note, how do I find threads that I previously
> made in google groups? Yesterday I made a new post and it took 6
> hours to appear. And to see if it had any replies I have to search
> through the Topic list
I believe that newbies are moderated for some indeterminate period of
time. Also, your posts won't be dsiplayed in your gMail INBOX (as i
notice you're using) until someone responds to it. Although, you might
be able to find it in the google group web page, I'm not sure. But, as
i said, you're probably just being moderated. That will stop after a
few posts (unless you irritate Chris ;-)
A couple of times, I've sent a post off only to figure out my problem
a minute later[1]. I realise that I can just reply to the msg in my
SENT folder in order to cancel the cry for help.
[1] b.logica's Law of Looking Like a 'Tard Online:
No matter how many hours one spends gnashing their teeth over
something, there's a better than even chance that the clue train will
pull in within 5 minutes of posting a plea for help to a mailing list.
The odds rise quickly with the degree to which the solution was a
stupidstupidstupid oversight. Double the odds if one's original post
explicitly stated that one checked the very damned thing it turned out
to be.
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