Thank you, Dardo! I appreciate the assistance.
Adjusting the /config/routing.php file helped me out. I'm set now.
Thanks for all suggestions.
Best,
Tony
On Nov 10, 5:09 am, "Dardo Sordi Bogado" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> look at APP/config/routes.php, there is a line that reads:
>
> /**
> * Here, we are connecting '/' (base path) to controller called 'Pages',
> * its action called 'display', and we pass a param to select the view file
> * to use (in this case, /app/views/pages/home.ctp)...
> */
> Router::connect('/', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action'
> => 'display', 'home'));
>
> Then go tohttp://book.cakephp.org/view/46/Routes-Configuration
>
> HTH,
> - Dardo Sordi.
>
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 2:24 AM, tpiscotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > 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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