AW: basic site concept

Hi Clint,

I guess that depends on what your website should do in generaland if and how the differnet functionalities are related.

1. How many static pages do you have
2. How often chengeas teh content of teh static pages and who changes them?

Based on this you have to decide if you do it yourself with basic HTML or if a WCMS is needed.

Depending on this you can either have several apps like a download center, support database linked to a static webseite or integrated in a WCMS.

Hope that helps.

Anja

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Von: cake-php@googlegroups.com [mailto:cake-php@googlegroups.com] Im Auftrag von justclint
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 6. November 2008 08:40
An: CakePHP
Betreff: basic site concept

Hello all, thanks for having this group available for newbies like myself. I have a pretty basic question that Im having a very difficult time finding an answer on. I've done google searches, read the cakephp manual and I am also reading the book "Beginning CakePHP" by David Golding which is a great book by the way.

Any way I've never used a framework before and Im totally new to the MVC concept. Ive done a couple tutorials such as the blog and also a to-do list. I have a site I will be converting over to cakephp and want to make sure I am using best practices and that I understand the basic concept.

So my question is; if Im building a whole website, is the whole website a "cakephp app" or does my whole website have many "cakephp apps"?

Through my reading it seems every tutorial is based on just a piece of a website (ie: blog) and every tutorial required a new cake folder with the usual contents (app, controllers, views, webroot etc.).

I need to make a single typical website with the usual stuff like products section, support section with search/download functionality and contact/request forms.

Im not sure if each one of these things are supposed to be different apps or if the whole site is in one app. It seems a bit cumbersome to keep adding cake folders over and over on a single site but nothing Ive read says otherwise. Also, If you are supposed to keep adding cake folder after cake folder you would endup with multiple webroot folders which also kinda of boggles my mind.

Your help is greatly appreciated and I do apologize for having such a primitive question but I have no where else to go but here.

Thanks again!

Cheers,

Clint

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