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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
