CakePHP plugin with static pages (PagesController in Plugin)

See the title of the post? I went nearly mad searching for it!! So I made it SEO friendly for any brothers-in-pain...

Question: What is the "proper" way to serve static pages in a plugin?

My basic idea was: "Oh, I'll just create the file in 'app/Plugin/ContactManager/Views/Pages/introduction.ctp' and it should pop up in /contact_manager/pages/introduction or /pages/contact_manager/introduction"

Got:
Error: MyFancyBoxerShorts.PagesController could not be found.

Error: Create the class PagesController below in file: .....

But I don't feel like creating a duplicate class name

I even tried
//file: PluginName/Controller/PagesController.php
require_once(ROOT . DS . APP_DIR . DS . 'Controller' . DS . 'PagesController.php');

But this fails, because the magic of Pages routing doesn't apply for plugins.

So, I have 2 possible solutions:

A: Create a PagesController inside my Plugin

- CON: duplicates class name
- CON: Any PagesController overrides from the user's app are lost (like layouts, helpers, markup parsers, tweaks)

- CON: requires plugin routing to achieve default pages/* (action: display) functionality

B: Add the pages routing to plugin routes.php (more conventional)
Create PluginName/PagesController.php // require_once(ROOT . DS . APP_DIR . DS . 'Controller' . DS . 'PagesController.php');
Add ONE of these in the routes.php

Router::connect('/:plugin/pages/*', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' => 'display')); // potentially unsafe if other plugins define the same

Router::connect('/contact_manager/pages/*', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' => 'display', 'plugin' => 'ContactManager')); //the "suitable solution"
Require the user to load routes with the Plugin.


While writing this, I have found the "suitable solution" (again), but I will leave it here in case anyone ever searches for it.

And I would honestly like your input on the most conventional way of doing this seemingly default-ish routing behavior.

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