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Cameron
Cameron

Reputation: 28793

How to create CakePHP Pages

I'm wanting to create a series of pages using CakePHP. I know you can simply create a view inside the pages folder but what if I wanted to build hierarchical pages like: /legal/policy/

Also if for example I wanted /legal/ to not exist ie. act only as a prefix how would I also do that?

So two questions:

1.) How to create hierarchical pages 2.) How to create prefixes like /legal/ so domain.com/legal would throw 404 but domain.com/legal/policy would show a page

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2465

Answers (2)

Chris Hawes
Chris Hawes

Reputation: 1344

You could put your view in the following:

/app/views/pages/legal/policy.ctp

It would then be accessible via: www.example.com/pages/legal/policy

If you want to remove the /pages/ from the URL then use routing as Travis Leleu suggests.

Upvotes: 1

Travis Leleu
Travis Leleu

Reputation: 4230

What you're doing is handled by routing in CakePHP. Check in the manual under the Pages section.

Basically, you're going to create a Route similar to as follows, in routes.php:

Router::connect( '/legal/:page', array( 'controller' => 'pages' /* or other controllers */, 'action' => 'display'), array( 'pass' => array( 'page' ) );

That will connect /legal/* to PagesController::display( $page = null ), with the first parameter (after "legal/") passed as $page.

That answers #1.

For #2, I would recommend just checking to see if $page is null. If it is, then you're at the root for that route (/legal/). Just do a redirect inside your PagesController over to your 404 page from there.

Upvotes: 1

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