Archive for August, 2009

Display layout or view from one CakePHP plugin in another plugin

31, Aug 2009

You can display plugin layouts (and views) from another plugin by doing this in your controller.
This example is for a layout:
1234$view_paths = Configure::read(’viewPaths’);
array_unshift($view_paths, (APP.’plugins’.DS.’plugin_name’.DS.’views’.DS));
Configure::write(’viewPaths’, $view_paths);
$this->layout = ‘layout_name’;
You can place this code inside a wrapper method in your plugin app controller to make it accessible from other controllers within the same plugin too ;] Obviously [...]

CakePHP plugin view overriding

27, Aug 2009

Woo hoo! It’s possible to override CakePHP plugin views just like in Rails using the Engines plugin. Documentation on how to do it is a bit thin on the ground though.
Say you created a CakePHP plugin called ‘cms’ and you had a plugin controller called ‘pages’ inside the cms plugin. Just place the views you [...]


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