I'm starting to use CakePHP, and I'm in the process of reading the manual. About halfway down the page, there's this comment:
// Render the element in /views/elements/ajaxreturn.ctp
So a very simple question: what's the .ctp extension refer to? What's the general use case?
Thanks.
CakePHP 1.2 introduced .ctp as its file extension for views.
CakePHP view files are written in plain PHP and have a default extension of .ctp (CakePHP Template). These files contain all the presentational logic needed to get the data it received from the controller in a format that is ready for the audience you’re serving to.
http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/views.html#view-templates
Template file used by CakePHP, a development framework for PHP Web applications; contains the PHP "view" code within the Model-View-Controller (MVC) software architecture design pattern; stores a template for how information is displayed in the Web application.
See more in http://www.fileinfo.com/extension/ctp
You can change the .ctp file extention by using property in Controller or AppController:
public $ext = '.php';
.ctp is the view file extention of CakePHP template file.
It stands for "CakePHP Template".
CakePHP provides an extendable architecture for designing, developing and distributing software using a rapid development framework. The .CTP file extension supports CakePHP's view scripts and provides the set of helpers appropriate for CakePHP version 1.2.
CTP files are templates for the CakePHP framework for application development, managed by the Cake Software Foundation. CTP files contain information for the program's user interface and dictates how an application appears to the user.... More »
http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/views.html#view-templates
Cakephp follow 3-tier architecture, Model ,Controller and View are 3-tier of this architecture.All MVC Framework follows this architecture Including Cakephp, .ctp extension used by Cakephp views.
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ctp stands for CakePHP Template
It is a template file used by CakePHP. Basically it is a application View layer, it contains the PHP,Html "view" code to display the end user.
Cakephp is based on MVC framework. 'M' stands for model, 'C' for Controller and 'V' for Views. Model is used for interacting with database tables, Controller used for controlling request and response of client and also for logic implementation and process and views are for presentation. Other two have file extension .php, but views has .ctp extension. Reason is that Cakephp architecture is using template caching internally, such as tpl in Smarty.
CTP files may contain layouts, elements, or helpers. Layouts define presentation code. Elements contain smaller, reusable segments of view code. Helpers contain classes that encapsulate logic used between many views, elements, or layouts.
CTP files are stored in the CakePHP /app/views directory.
the ctp file type in cakePHP is used for views it can be used to represent :
1. The standard views, wich are related to a model and a controller;
2. Elements, wich can be inserted in other views (Pages, or standard view);
3. Pages : Static pages .
Inside a view you can use HTML and PHP, and in the most of cases you have an object available, wich represent the model (Example $Product).
CakePHP's View Class has a class varibale called $viewExtension or perhaps $viewExt and its default value is set to 'ctp' which stands for cake php template, you can over write this value in any of your controller or in derived view classes or in any controller action within the scope of code.
.ctp files are CakePHP Template Pages, that is view templates.
It is used for the view in the MVC that shows output in the browser and act as a view for a controller action.
JSON, XML, HTML, JS, CSS, PHP code can be written in it.
More than as HTML/PHP pages, it shows data sent from controller.
Also .ctp files CakePHP can act as a layout that wraps the view around it.
Its a view file from where controller render the presentation login.You can change the extension ".ctp" to ".php" for views to set the $ext property for specific controller $this->ext = '.php'
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I'm aware of the "conventions over configurations" philosophy beyond CakePHP. The "bake all" command generates automatically Models, Controllers and Views by using english language conventions. The problem is that the website I'm making needs to be in spanish. I can code the back-end (database and MVC stuff) in english but the automatic view it's rendered in english too and I need it in spanish.
In MVC I can just add a DisplayName attribute to the model (anyway, I never had problems with writing the names in spanish) so the view will show it, instead of the name of the field in the database/model.
So, Does CakePHP have a easy way to do the same? Do I have to modify each automatic view or create my own?
There is no such property, no, however baked view templates are by default using translation functions for all output, so you could simply create proper spanish translations and you should be good.
See
Cookbook > Internationalization & Localization (CakePHP 3)
Cookbook > Core Libraries > Utilities > Internationalization & Localization (CakePHP 2)
I want to call a .ctp file in one 'Model' and the .ctp file is in another 'View'.
Is it possible in cakephp?
Or instead of that should i call that 'Controller' function in my 'Model'?
CakePHP in a nutshell, and the keywords that you might need to search for:
Dispatcher and Routing controlling how URL reaches your controller.
Controller places system logic and controlling individual routing requests from Dispatcher
Component places logics that can be easily shared by Controllers
Model is for all the database related queries, manipulation, selections, deletions
Behavior can be deem as similar to Component, that provides "mixins" to Models to achieve similar behaviors, such as TreeBehavior abstract your database tables into parent-child relationship.
View is used by Controller to render individual pages to the user
Helper placed shared functionalities to help View render certain stuff. For example, FormHelper helps you all sort of form rendering, inputs, etc.
Place globally shared library in app/Lib folder so it can be easily accessed through using App::uses('...', 'Lib'). For example, a Gravatar library that helps you convert emails to md5-hashed strings. So this can be used everywhere in your app.
vendors are for those packaged vendor libraries that do not respect MVC, for example, swiftmailer that helps you send emails. Usually I would abstract them into my Lib folder for ease.
plugins are for those baked CakePHP applications found everywhere in the internet.
There are others in-depth stuff that you might be interested in, but these are the most basic stuff that you need to know before using a MVC framework like CakePHP. Check out their docs before diving in.
You can't access View (.ctp) in Model, it's against MVC architecture and logic. Just tell us more what do you want to do, maybe you're doing something wrong.
I am going to implement routing feature in my asp.net4.0 application and following the given link:
URL-Routing
This is fine if an application has limited no. of pages but my application has lots of pages.
so i have to write code [ routes.MapPageRoute("","",""); ] many times.
Can we map all pages by looping through any collection classes or by any other method.
Thanks
If you have a standard pattern for your url and your file structure you can use the placeholders in the mapped url too
eg. If you can map every "{controller}/{action}/{id}" to "/Pages/{controler}/{action}.aspx"
For example, i build a site that has this folder structure
Under the root folder there is the Views folder where all my pages reside.
Under the Views folder there is one subfolder for every "controller" (there is no controllers in webforms, but I follow the MVC conventions here)
Under the controllers subfolders there are the aspx pages that represent different actions
The aspx page names are the same for each controller ("Index.aspx","Add.aspx","Edit.aspx" etc)
So I can have a general mapping rule
routes.MapPageRoute("GeneralAction", "{controler}/{action}/{id}", "~/Views/{controler}/{action}.aspx");
I don't need different rules for different pages as long as the folder structure follows this pattern
Now
"/Patient/Add" will map to "~/Views/Patient/Add.aspx"
"/Incident/Add" will map to "~/Views/Incident/Add.aspx"
"/Patient/Edit/31" will map to "~/Views/Patient/Edit.aspx" (with id=31)
etc, all matching this one rule above.
of course if you want to override this rule you can define more specific routes BEFORE defining this one.
I have a plugin with user model, profile model and an user controller, in this user model is associated with profile model. In my main model folder (under app), I have user model and user controller(here I have not associated with profile). Sometimes I'm getting errors saying that user model is not associated with profile model. Also sometimes I'm getting the error - "missing action logout in users controller". I have given the logout action in the app/controller/userscontroller but that method is not available in myplugin/usercontroller. Im using cakephp2.0.. How can I solve this issue ? How cakephp is setting the cache for models and controllers ? I don't want to completely disable the cache.
I've had trouble with this as well. Basically it comes down to the fact that Cake doesn't support controllers with the same class name. So a controller named UsersController on plugin and app level will cause trouble with caching and some components (the Auth component, for example).
Support for identical classnames in various levels of a Cake application will come in Cake 3.0 which will require PHP 5.3, which in turn supports namespaces, a feature needed for correctly handling duplicate class names.
With no word on when Cake 3.0 will be released as the 2.0 branch is just out of beta, I refactored my plugin by prepending the plugin name to my controllers, views and models.
So UserModel became PluginUserModel and UsersController became PluginUsersController. It's a bit of a hassle, because you have to update all the views and variables which use the model's name.
My original question contains some links to the Cake bug tracker where similar questions were raised, should you be interested in some background,
I understood (more or less) the separation between the MVC parts in cakePhp, however i cannot understand what are the defaults.
meaning:
What should i edit in order to change the root-entry-point of my site(the known "index.html" or "index.php" file, that shouldn't be changed in cake)?
What controller? What model? What view? What layout?
(hope I'm understood)
(i am using version 1.3)
thanks
What you should edit to modify the root is:
app\views\pages\home.ctp
The default layout can be tweaked here:
app\views\layouts\default.ctp
From there on you can create your menus, links etc to other controllers of other pages, then involving the traditional MVC patterns/conventions you already know.
Addition:
If you want to provide a link to your statistics then use for example:
echo $html->link('My nice statistics',
array('controller' => 'statistics', 'action' => 'show'));
If you would like to embed the statistics then I would use elements: http://book.cakephp.org/view/1081/Elements.
I am not sure about what you missed: maybe the fact you can specify the controller to use for links if it is an external controller to the MVC scope currently used.
Are you sure you have understood the conventions behind MVC? Here is the tutorial I started with some time ago. It is well made but a bit out of date for cakephp 1.3. Nevertheless it illustrates the basic concepts very nicely: Cook web sites fast using CakePHP (IBM)
I hope this is more helpful then :-)
The default Route in Cake routes the address / to the PagesController::display action with the parameter "home", which will make the Pages controller display the file /views/pages/home.ctp. If you just want a static home page, just edit that file.
If your default homepage at / should display more complex data, including model data, you would rather create your own controller with a model and its own directory in /views/ and change the default route for / in /app/config/routes.php to point to an action of that controller.