Comments on: CakePHP – Static pages under the root

By: dam

dam — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:26:20 +0000

hi can i use the static pages in side in controller bu i need to run this controller before giving the database details its possible to do ???

mypage/photos

this controller will run with out giving the db info inthe database.php file can i run this controller ???

i write the router also if i give the db inofo correctly mans its running else its trough error “Requires a Database Connection” how can i solve

help me

By: Jonah Turnquist

Jonah Turnquist — Sat, 31 May 2008 17:04:11 +0000

This is how I am going to do it:

In the routes file I commented out these two separate lines:
//Router::connect(‘/’, array(‘controller’ => ‘pages’, ‘action’ => ‘display’, ‘home’));
//Router::connect(‘/pages/*’, array(‘controller’ => ‘pages’, ‘action’ => ‘display’));

And I now have this line instead:
Router::connect(‘/’, array(‘controller’ => ‘pages’));

So now if I want an /about page I add this route:
Router::connect(‘/about’, array(‘controller’ => ‘pages/about’));

Now /about routes to PagesController->about() and uses the pages/about.ctp view

Using this method means you have to create a new route for each static page.

Also now the home page will route to PagesController->index()

By: brian

brian — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:44:01 +0000

I’ve been looking for an alternative to the /pages/ thing (which certainly does suck). Like Daniel, I’m also leaning towards the route solution. Tat seems much more elegant than picking up from an error condition.

By: Daniel Criconet

Daniel Criconet — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:50:35 +0000

My alternative of choice was to turn around Siruuk’s solution: I preferred to create a route for each controller, and finally catch the “/*” urls routing them to the pages controller. From an effort point of view I consider the route as just one more step in the setup of each model/view/controller set, whereas I don’t want to have to create a route for each static page.

By: Siruuk

Siruuk — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 13:53:01 +0000

Hi,
with your method I cannot use $this->viewVars to pass data from the static page to the layout.

Why would I do that? Well I’d like to take advantage of the general layout, as a template, but using particular content for every “static” page, with a particular ccs.

For example, the page about, is static but I’d like to use the general layout plus a particular css espefic to that page…

So far I haven’t found a way to do it other than creating a single rout for every static page.

Thank you, anyway

By: Mikee Freedom

Mikee Freedom — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 05:21:34 +0000

Surely there must be a method using the native CakePHP routing. Have you asked in the Google Groups?

I have currently employed your method successfully so thank you very much for that. Let me know if you find another way.

By: John

John — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:23:00 +0000

This is of course only if you want the pages to take on the site’s template etc..

By: Webmaster

Webmaster — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 07:36:19 +0000

Thanks, I was also looking for information on how to create static pages in CakePHP.

By: Daniel Hofstetter

Daniel Hofstetter — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 19:42:50 +0000

You can put your static files also in app/webroot.