Static Pages

[Zachary]

David,

Loved the book.  Have found it very helpful in learning CakePHP.



There doesn't seem to be much info on how to create static pages.  Do you have any good resources?  For instance, what if I wanted an About or Contact page (and subsequent links in the navigation).  



Thanks.

[davidgolding]

The easiest way, IMO, is to use the Pages controller (which is built-into Cake). In other words, for an about page, just go to the app/views/pages folder and create the about.ctp file. Put in it whatever HTML/PHP you'd like. Then, you can go to http://localhost/app/pages/about and it will display the page. If you want this route to appear differently, just use the Routes configuration to make the setting. It will be through

'controller'=>'pages','action'=>'display','about'