Comments on: How to Maintain Simple, Static Pages in CakePHP

By: al

al — Wed, 11 May 2011 18:09:26 +0000

helpful, thanks

By: Sam S

Sam S — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:11:21 +0000

@T0aD – the model is StaticPage to be consistent with its corssesponding controller and cause not conflicts with the existing pages controller.

I am working on a Page MVC that has the display method for static template serving and view for db based page content

I am using a number of cakedc plugins with it

this article of great interest, thanks for posting

By: T0aD

T0aD — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 00:30:25 +0000

I’m still wondering why this model is called StaticPage

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:59:12 +0000

An easy way to get better URL’s (/about, /contact, etc. instead of /pages/about, /pages/contact, etc.) is set up proper routing in your CakePHP app.

At the very bottom, simply insert this into /config/routes.php:

Router::connect(‘/*’, array(‘controller’ => ‘pages’, ‘action’ => ‘display’));

Then, every template you create in /views/pages will display automatically at /(name). This route is placed at the very bottom as a “catch-all” — if no other routes are defined for a particular URL, it gets routed to the built-in Pages controller.

By: Dam

Dam — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:30:10 +0000

Hi ,

How can i show the controller page, with out giving the DB info int he database.php

means i need to run the controller mypage method photos

http://www.example.com/mypage/photos

without giving Db info how can i run

By: Johnny

Johnny — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:28:27 +0000

Hey Jeff, there’s no need to code a custom controller for static pages if you want a hierarchy. The pages_controller supports this feature. As far as making the content dynamic, that’s a fair enough reason.

You also claim that the URLs look unprofessional, and yet you use the Router in your code. Somewhat confusing. Router would solve your ugly URL problem. Pages wasn’t designed for dynamic content, so any bashing of it therein is somewhat irrelivant.

Components are a far simpler way to allow updateable content on a static template.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:58:08 +0000

Thanks for clearing this out, this is as you also have seen very helpfull.

Are you willing to add the pagenames and paths to above the pagecode ? This would be nice for a lot of people I think !

Thanks a lot.

By: murraybiscuit

murraybiscuit — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:06:45 +0000

i would also add seo keywords and description to the static_pages table.

By: murraybiscuit

murraybiscuit — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:57:55 +0000

thanks for this article. i’ve recently started working in cake and having some teething problems. particularly with this issue. i like this approach – it’s very similar to a cms i’ve built before.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:35:41 +0000

@Matt: I have very limited experience with behaviors in Cake; I’ve rarely used them in the past. I don’t presently know of a workaround, but if I get the chance to try and reproduce the problem I’ll see if I can find one.