Re: re-skinned or plugin version or my site.. like an API but templated

So you want to have essentially 1 instance of your application running (the model, and controllers), but different views (or perhaps, just a different template) at the other end?

There are many ways to do this i suppose. If you host everything yourself you can probably use App::build to point at a central/reusable set of models/controllers etc for a given domain.

Or you could go the other way, and change the template view path based on the request..

if you want them to physically host the front end, then you probably need to use an actual API - expose your "backend" as a restful api (which is a snap in cake to do), and write a "front end" app which consumes that API - customise the front end app with various styles etc. They can then install your front end application on their servers and get at it from something like http://<clienturl>/<yourapplication>

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 2:01 PM, elogic <asymonds@elogicmedia.com.au> wrote:

Hi All,

I am about to being a projest with cakePHP as the framework, my client has now asked me how we can go about setting up the site so other firms in the same industry
could somehow use the same system (running on our database) from a front end point of view on their website as an addon product.

So basically the front end of the site will be designed for us and then again for each of the other firms but the functionality and admin remain the same which they plugin to their site (nearly like using old school iframes).

Any ideas on how this could best work and be setup initially? Almost like an API but the whole front end needs to be templated with their corporate colours and logo (I'm thinking custom header and footer then the content area remains quite neutral)

Any tips or threads, posts etc online would be great.
Thanks

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