Comments on: CakePHP: How to Add Theme Support?

By: ruru

ruru — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:11:46 +0000

Layouts will be places on cake\app\views\themed\default\layouts.
While css and image files are in \app\webroot\themed\default\….

This way user can pick theme (Eg. default) and CakePHP will magically do the rest.
You only need to put files on proper folder.

Don’t forget! On production server, /webroot is set as the DocumentRoot.
So this way, we hide our php / cakephp script from public. Refer to this CakePHP Production Installation

User can only see \webroot\… but not \views\…
Anything inside views should NOT be visible to user.
So don’t put images inside \views\…, put in \webroot\ instead.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:19:13 +0000

Hi,
Same question - this is nice to handle layouts - but how would you handle
e.g. allowing the user to pic their CSS scheme for the site?

By: MoreToKnow

MoreToKnow — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:30:51 +0000

Interesting feature! I’m left with at least two key questions right off the top of my head, though:
(1) What about layouts?
(2) What about css?
Both of those assets determine the look of a Cake app, but they don’t fall under the /views/ folder. So, how do they play into this Theme support?
Thanks

By: PHP-ist

PHP-ist — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 08:22:26 +0000

…put inside folder “views/themed/”, instead “views/”.

Thanks for your correction

By: majic3

majic3 — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:17:17 +0000

folder called themed instead views

instead should read inside?

Themes are great I had a play with them a while back, found it perfect for making admin interface entirely separate from the public site. Had some issues when using it in conjunction with assetmapper, but since cake now has settings for asset compression in core.php I am revisiting this