Re: Baking into an admin sub folder or segmenting admin MVC from public website

Actually, in 3.x this is exactly what is going to happen. Admin controllers will live in an Controller\Admin namespace

/thomas

On 22 Aug 2014, at 10:39, Stephen S <hellospeakman@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey Paul

I can understand your reasoning of wanting to bake controllers in an admin subfolder but I think that this is just going to fight against Cake and make life more difficult for you.

You can set up an admin prefix which means when you access www.site.com/admin/users/index it will search for the default UsersController.php file and the admin_index() method within it. http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/development/routing.html#prefix-routing

/app/Controllers/UsersController.php
/app/Views/Users/admin_index.ctp

If you'd like to bake these admin methods and views when you bake your regular methods you can do this by altering the bake templates (See http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/console-and-shells/code-generation-with-bake.html#modify-default-html-produced-by-baked-templates)

On 21 August 2014 00:35, Paul Drage <eswoosh.limited@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi there!

I've a background from CodeIgniter and am trying out CakePHP.
So far I'm pretty impressed with how Cake can be scaled and how quick it is to get up and running - even on a strange remote DB setup things seem to be lightning fast.

I have created tables in a database, something like 27-28 tables with interlinking _id fields, I have run # cake bake models / controllers / views - and looked at the resulting framework in a web browser, all of the links seem to work and it's quick to add data - GREAT!

Now - Rather than creating 27-28 models and controllers and views manually cake has generated it all for me and put it into the relevant folders like /app/views
This is a bit hard to explain but I would of liked to of baked my CRUD stuff into a sub folder within each type, so for example:

app/controllers/ADMIN/___all_controllers baked
app/models/ADMIN/__
app/views/ADMIN/__

Then I would like to implement ACL/Auth rules to lock down all of the controllers that were baked into the admin folder/section based on something like admin_level (int) in db table.

This would then facilitate me in being able to use the root to build out the 'public' facing website which will sit on top of everything else - right now (i'm not sure if this is even possible?!) it's just a mess.. my views folder has probably 40-50 sub-folders with files in each - there isn't a nice folder structure, as soon as i come to add more controllers for the front-end public facing data and website i fear it will become unmanagable.

Please could you provide any assistance? I've looked at routing - I understand the concept, but I don't think that will solve the file management aspect here.
If I am unable to solve the file management side, i.e all files must be in subfolders within /views/ then perhaps you could suggest a way that I may be able to continue using the awesome function 'cake bake' to generate the CRUD views/models/controllers but with a view to me being able to specify that everything baked is to be 'ADMIN' functions - i have no problem hand coding the rest of the controllers and models for the public site - but the sheer amount of tables dictates that I'd be crazy to try and build every one of them by hand when cake bake is doing a great job for me already?

I've looked through the blog tutorial and so on but I've been unable to find any specific answers to my queries - I have been working with PHP since 2004 so have plenty of hands on experience but Cake might still be a little alien!

Thanks for any ideas or input you may have, it will be truly appreciated (right now the comfortable thing to do would be to go back to CodeIgniter which I'm trying my best to resist!)
Cheers
Paul

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