Re: Best approach for Pages

Maybe use something like this: http://github.com/morrislaptop/baked_simple
?
Else there is a very easy way. Add your "site" or page model and MVC.
Then there is a third option, use requestaction from pages "views" (a
little dirty)

On Jan 28, 9:45 pm, "Dave" <make.cake.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
> No, I need these pages to be dynamic. There was an article on using  /
> making your own page controller
>
> http://paulherron.net/articles/view/managing_simple_pages_in_cakephp
>
> But I cant seem to get it to work.
>
> I do not want to hard code about / history so on since the site owner may
> add new pages as the site grows. They may add a new "page" called "bio" for
> example then site/bio will pull bio page using the pages controller.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave
>
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> Router::connect('/', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' => 'display',
> 'index')); Router::connect('/about', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action'
> => 'display', 'about')); Router::connect('/info', array('controller' =>
> 'pages', 'action' => 'display', 'info')); Router::connect('/history',
> array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' => 'display', 'history'));
> Router::connect('/contact', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' =>
> 'display', 'contact'));
>
> That's for static files. Since these will be dynamic, you could create a new
> method in pages_controller, eg.
>
> Router::connect('/', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' => 'fetch',
> 'index'));
>
> On Jan 28, 1:10 am, "Dave" <make.cake.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have to build a simple site, 5 pages but the tricky part seems to be
> > the pages are index, about us, info, history and contact us so the
> > urls need to be reflected by that (site/about_us.... site/contact) and
> > the only thing on these pages will be text. Admin logs in and using
> > wysiwyg editor can update the content for these pages. I do not want
> > to build 5 controllers since everything can be done with 1 "pages"
> > controller. So my question is how can this be done and if using 1
> > controller what would you name this controller since "pages" is the
> > obvious choice but that's set aside for stoic pages and can you set routes
> for the text urls using 1 controller?
>
> > Any ideas / suggestions would be great.
>
> > Thanks,
>
> > Dave
>
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