I've just come across[1] a neat way to deal with static pages over at
CakeBaker's site. It's an improvement (imho) on Jonathan Snook's
version[2] (which is also pretty neat). Though I'm leaning towards
moving to this method, I'd really like to figure something out.
I've had a system for serving static pages for a while now that's
worked out really well. I can have arbitrarily-nested dirs of static
pages without any problems. But there are two issues, one a minor
inconvenience, the other quite frustrating.
1) I need to specify (almost) all of the routes manually:
Router::connect('/contact', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' =>
'display', 'contact'));
Router::connect('/links', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' =>
'display', 'links'));
Router::connect('/sitemap', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' =>
'display', 'sitemap'));
Router::connect('/about', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' =>
'display', 'about/index'));
Router::connect('/about/*', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' =>
'display', 'about'));
That last one will catch any requests for stuff inside the
"views/pages/about" dir, while its predecessor will serve up the
"/about/index" page. I'm not at all whining about this. I'm fine with
it, as I don't have very many static pages. YMMV.
2) I can't use Cake's super-fantastic reverse-routing arrays to create
links without having "pages" tag along for the ride. Using the first
route, above, as an example, if I create a link like this:
$html->link(
'Contact',
array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' => 'display', 'contact'),
array('title' => 'How to contact us')
)
.. I get "/pages/contact". But I can use custom routes for other controllers:
Router::connect('/foobar', array('controller' => 'newsletters',
'action' => 'index'));
$html->link(
'click here',
array('controller' => 'newsletters', 'action' => 'index')
)
gives: "/foobar", which calls up my NewslettersController::index() action.
So, where the difference? In going through the source, I've gotten as
far as Router::connectNamed() but am stumped as to what's going on.
How/why is this happening?
More importantly, does anyone have any suggestions for overriding this
feature? Preferably without goofing around inside cake/libs, of
course, though I'd be willing to do it for this.
[1] http://snook.ca/archives/cakephp/static_pages_cakephp12/
and
http://snook.ca/archives/cakephp/easier_static_pages_2/
[2]
http://cakebaker.42dh.com/2008/06/18/an-alternative-approach-for-static-pages/
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