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.limi...@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 > > -- > Like Us on FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/CakePHP > Find us on Twitter http://twitter.com/CakePHP > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CakePHP" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Kind Regards Stephen Speakman -- Like Us on FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/CakePHP Find us on Twitter http://twitter.com/CakePHP --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
