Re: Newbie question for "best practice" on how to combine CakePHP with a (given) design

Hey guys,

thanks a lot for these very useful hints. I will definitely do some
more reading and start experimenting along the lines of your
suggestions.
And probably come back with more specific questions then.. :-)

Cheers,
Oliver

On Mar 29, 6:05 pm, cricket <zijn.digi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> To add to Jeremy's comments,
>
> In your menu elements, you can refer to the present location with
> $this->here, so you can have logic for showing/hiding submenus, etc.
> and avoid having to create separate layouts for each menu situation.
>
> For my login_prompt element, I check if the user is already logged in
> like this:
>
> if (!$session->read('Auth.User'))
> {
>    // show "login" link}
>
> else
> {
>    // show "logout" and "profile" links
>
> }
>
> If your users table has an "admin" column (0 or 1) you can do if
> ($session->read('Auth.User.admin')) to test whether you should include
> admin-specific links or whatever. Note that User is uppercase, as
> that's the name of the model. In your controllers, though, you'd use
> AuthComponent's user() method: $this->Auth->user('admin').
>
> For including disparate bits of code you can place several $this->element() calls and use requestAction() in the elements. Make sure
>
> you have caching enabled in core.php and specifify that you want the
> element to be cached because each requestAction() call creates an
> entirely new request through Cake, which is expensive. By caching the
> element you avoid doing that each time. See this article:
>
> http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/creating-reusable-elements-wi...
>
> Or search for "cakephp requestaction cache" or similar.
>
> On Mar 29, 8:49 am, janitor048 <janitor...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi there,
>
> > I'm pretty new to CakePHP (and MVC in general for that matter) and I'm
> > just working through the docs etc.
> > And since the cookbook is quite informative, I think I've got a pretty
> > good idea of what CakePHP could do for me by now.
>
> > However, I would like to ask a question on best or common practice on
> > how to actually integrate my pieces of cake with a given design.
> > So that I can keep these suggestions in mind when digging even deeper
> > into the documentation.
>
> > Say, I've got a webpage that features
> > - a main "view" area in the center
> > - a main menu at the top that stays constant over all pages
> > - a side menu to the left that stays constant over some pages but does
> > in general depend on the content of the central area
> > - a small side area to the right with some login / admin bits-and-
> > pieces.
>
> > Pretty common and probably pretty close to the actual project I'm
> > about to work on.
> > The general layout as described above I would like to design using
> > dreamweaver (for instance) and setting up a css formatted page using
> > divs.
>
> > The main toolbar would probably best go into a common cake layout
> > file. But what about the rest? View files with elements for left menu
> > and login-area on the right? Login stuff as an element and the left
> > menu in layout files that are selected by the controller accordingly?
>
> > Can I attach id-based css rules to a specific element created by a
> > (say) form helper? For positioning purposes and the like..
>
> > And finally: What is the best way to incorporate bits and pieces from
> > different models / controllers into a single view? That would
> > something like a summary page, e.g. showing the 5 latests news, the 3
> > latest pictures and the most popular comments (or whatever you like)
> > in different areas of a single page (as delivered to the user).
>
> > Any hints and suggestions would be highly appreciated.
> > Cheers,
> > Oliver

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