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Thomas
Thomas

Reputation: 103

Creating a view (cakePHP noob)

I've been reading until my eyes are swollen, and having troubles finding what should be a simple answer.

I am not new to PHP, but I am new to cakePHP. Please bear with me, and have patience with my ignorance of lack of knowledge of the terminology.

I have been asked to help make some fixes on a cakePHP developed site, that was recently created.

The site is missing a page for "http://domain.com/logout". I can see the functions I need to access in the UserController, but I am not sure where to put the .ctp file to generate the view.

Let's just say I want the logout.ctl file to be something as simple as: echo "Hello World";

Under my app/View folder I have the sub-folders Home, & User that I have tried to place this file into. I am assuming I have to do something else as well, but I have not been able to locate what that is.

Any assistance is appreciated. Thanks for reading!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 459

Answers (1)

kyo
kyo

Reputation: 610

1.By default, you should link your view and controller together by creating Views/Controller/action.ctp.

Since the url is linked to Controller by routes, views are not associated with it directly.

For example, if you have set 

Router::connect('/logout/', array('controller' => 'User', 'action' => 'logout'));

, then you may want to create Views/User/logout.ctp.

If you have set 

Router::connect('/logout/', array('controller' => 'Home', 'action' => 'logout'));

, then you may want to create Views/Home/logout.ctp.

2.You can change the view in your action with $this->view='sample' or $this->render('sample'); and then create the view file with name sample.ctp.

3.You can also read a view of another folder with $this->render('/Sample/logout');. Reference: http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/controllers.html

4.If you use themes $this->theme = 'Example';, the default view file will be set to /app/View/Themed/Example/Posts/edit.ctp. Reference: http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/views/themes.html

5.I think the default extension of cakephp view files is .ctp but not .ctl. .ctl is used by Microsoft Visual Studio? I'm not quite sure.

Upvotes: 1

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