Thanks for the advice!  I appreciate it!

- Tony

On Nov 9, 5:14 am, acoustic_overdrive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> 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
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