OK, this makes sense. What's the best way to set and retrieve a site name? I'd like to define the site name in one place, but I think that I might be repeating someone else's work by extending AppController.
On Sep 13, 10:00 am, teknoid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To build static pages that share the layout of your cakephp's site, > you simply add some_file.ctp to your app/views/pages directory, then > such page is accessed atwww.yoursite.com/pages/some_file. If you want > a static page that has nothing to do with cake, simply place it in > your cake's webroot directory and it will be accessed > atwww.yousite.com/someOtherFileNotRelatedToCake.php > > There is a core 'pages' controller, which you can override if you need > some specific functionality for your static pages. Also it may or may > not be desirable for you to have 'pages' int the path of the URL, but > that's easily dealt with routes. > > I like to make my static pages links point to something > likewww.mysite.com/staticPage.html, then this route rule will properly > make the connection to the right controller (hopefully you can see how > that works): > > Router::connect(’/(.*).html’, array(’controller’ => ‘pages’, ‘action’ > => ‘display’)); > > On Sep 13, 9:22 am, 703designs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The CakePHP docs don't go into very many details about how to use > > CakePHP in conjunction with a static website. I'm building a light CRM > > app that will be behind my mostly static company site, but I want to > > keep these static pages in the Cake system so that templates are > > shared and I have access to dynamic capabilities even on static pages. > > What's the preferred way to go about this? I see, for example, that > > one router is configured to send '/' to pages->default(home), and I > > imagine that routing will be involved in what I'm trying to do. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
