Re: Getting started with themes and static files

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Dan Bair <dan.bair@yahoo.de> wrote:
>
> If you're going to be having a lot of static pages, it may be worth
> your while to use Cake's Folder and File objects. You can loop through
> the .ctp files assign the routes dynamically.
>
> Here's a quick snippet that will go through all of the .ctp files in
> the pages directory. This will be in app/config/routes.php
>
> App::import( 'Core', 'Folder' );
> $path = APP . 'views' . DS . 'pages' . DS;
> $files = new Folder( $path );
> $p = $files->find( '(.+)\.ctp' );
> foreach( $p as $file ){
> if( file_exists( $path . $file ) ){
> $tmp = str_replace( $path, '', substr( $file, 0, (strlen
> ($file)-4) ) );
> Router::connect('/' . $tmp, array('controller' => 'pages', 'action'
> => 'display', $tmp ));
> }
> }

This worked very well.

Thank you.

> Do note that this won't recursively get all of the files. You'll need
> to use the Folder::findRecursive method if you'll be using additional
> directories for your static pages.

All my static html should not go deeper than the root.

One additional question:

How troublesome would it be to have the 'pages' controller also check
the web root for .html files?

ie:

example.com/pagename -> WWW_ROOT.DS.$pagename.'.html' ?

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