Also, to set the page title for one of these pages, you just put this somewhere in your view template:
$this->pageTitle = 'Home Page of Super Mash Up World'; And in case you are curious, you use the app/config/routes.php file to make it so that: http://www.mashupworld.com/ silently redirects to: http://www.mashupworld.com/pages/homepage Also, in the future it would be better to use a more descriptive subject for your post. "New User" doesn't really describe what your post is about ... your post is actually more useful than the subject line suggests it is. -Aran On May 21, 2:26 pm, aranworld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is a very similar discussion thread posted yesterday > here:http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php/browse_thread/thread/2c01cf7c... > > The key is the Pages controller. Pages are "static" pages whose > templates are in the views/templates directory. They do not have > controllers, or models, and are accessed with the URL: > > http://www.yourwebsite.com/pages/home_page_mashup --> > points to views/pages/home_page_mashup.ctp > > To make things "dynamic" you fill up this "static" page with calls to > $this->element(), in which each element is built upon a call to $this- > > >requestAction(). > > This can cause performance problems, however, if you employ caching, > then the performance problem isn't really an issue. > > As mentioned in the thread above, this article provides a lot of > information on how to use the combination of element() and > requestAction(). > > http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/creating-reusable-elements-wi... > > -Aran > > On May 21, 1:39 pm, "Marcos Aruj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think you are looking for "layouts". That's where you can join all > > different parts of the page and style them. Look for them in the tutorial. > > Hope this helps. > > > On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Rob Wilkerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hey guys - > > > > I'm new to Cake and have walked through a tutorial or two, but it > > > occurs to me that most of what I've read with respect to getting > > > started with Cake is very simplistic. I haven't seen any "advanced" > > > examples so far. That got me thinking that most sites aren't so > > > simplistic as CRUD+view for a single class of object (like, say, > > > features). If all I wanted to display was features, then sure, a > > > simple m, v and c for the feature class is all I'd need, but as often > > > as not, pages are kind of mashups of different objects. > > > > So what's the core strategy for creating a page view that is > > > effectively a mashup displaying features, sponsors, events, etc.? I'm > > > sure it can be done, I just haven't read anything that offers an > > > example. > > > > Thanks for the input. > > > > Rob > > > -- > > Marcos Aruj Alvarez > > Ingeniero de Software > > ------------------------------- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ----- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---