Re: Best way to handle sub-tabs

In retrospect, I guess I didn't explain as well as I should have.

I have each subtab as an element now and every subtab is rendered via
ajax (i.e. $js->link ($html->tag ('span', $side_button
['title']),
array ('action'=> 'display/'.$side_button ['name']), $options). The
controller action "display" just has a $this->render ("/elements/
$tabname/$whatToDisplay");

So, when the user goes to http://system/tabname, the initial view sets
up the element specific to that tab that views/layouts/default.ctp did
not setup. Each subtab element just has stuff specific to that subtab
(in my case, mainly just text).

However, I'd like people to go to http://system/tabname/subtab and
directly render the specific text to that subtab. That's what I can't
figure out??

Anyway, does this sound right to everyone? I feel like I am the only
one having this problem on something which seems pretty common (tabs/
subtabs). Is there a better way of doing the above? I'd welcome all
ideas!

Thanks for the response!
Joey

On Oct 1, 1:49 pm, Miles J <mileswjohn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just use the default MVC architecture?
>
> tabname = controller
> subtab = action
>
> On Sep 30, 12:05 pm, Joey Mukherjee <joe...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I have some tabs along the top of my CakePHP site and some sub-tabs
> > along the left side of my page.  When I switch tabs, it goes to a URL
> > such ashttp://system/tabname.  When I go to a sub-tab, I use $this->render to update the content of the view to what the user clicked
>
> > on.  However, I'd like a URL such ashttp://system/tabname/subtabto
> > go directly to the subtab.
>
> > How might I accomplish this?  Basically, I want to redirect to tabname/
> > index and then render the subtab.
>
> > My tabname index view sets up the side menu.  The subtab just modifies
> > the inner content.  The views/layouts/default.ctp has the top tabs
> > defined in them.  Obviously, the side tabs change from tab to tab.
>
> > Hope that makes sense!
>
> > Thanks,
> > Joey

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