It depends what you want your homepage to represent.. If your homepage shows a list of blog posts, for instance, you might set the route for '/' to be '/posts/index', which would use posts_controller.
If your homepage is a content-managed page of text and images, you should look at creating a Page model, pages database table, and your own custom pages_controller, based on /cake/libs/controllers/ pages_controller.php. You can use the $path variable to interrogate a database table and find the content of a particular page. You shouldn't make a new controller for each page, you should use one pages_controller and use the parameters to differentiate between pages. I'm sure there are tutorials out there for exactly this but can't find any for some reason... On Nov 9, 2:32 am, tpiscotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > I'm an experienced MVC framework developer but am very new to CakePHP > and it's specific features -- so I apologize in advance for the newbie > question. I've done some searching and can't seem to find an answer, > but it seems like such a basic issue that I'm sure the answer is every > obvious and I'm missing something. > > My question is: > > My default homepage is located in /app/views/pages/home.ctp which is > apparently set in the routing config as the default homepage location > when going to the site root (exwww.mycakesite.com). > > Now, how would I set up a controller and model specific to whatever is > set as the default homepage if I want to include database interaction > on the homepage? > > NOTE: I've set up other models/controllers/views just fine so far, > it's just the homepage I'm curious about. > > Trying to add something like "index_controller.php" or > "home_controller.php" in my /controllers directory doesn't seem to do > anything (when trying to at least trigger an error to see if it > recognizes those naming schemas for the controller and then asks for a > model, etc). > > Not sure if this question made any sense. I'll be happy to provide > additional clarification!! > > Thank you in advance! > > -Tony --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
