Rendering a specific view in cakePHP

In your controller you may want to render a different view than what would conventionally be done.

You can do this by calling render() directly. Once you have called render() CakePHP will not try to re-render the view:


class PagesController extends AppController {

function your_action() {
$this->render('custom_file');
}
}

This would render app/View/Pages/custom_file.ctp instead of app/View/Pages/your_action.ctp

Remove controller name from url

In cakephp if you want to remove controller name from URL , just add below line on your's routes.php file.

Router::connect('/:action', array('controller' => 'pages'));


its come something like that locahost/stiename/action .

We do this generally to show our static pages on site without controller name in URL , page which are likes about us ,contact us ,help and so on.

Make PHP to work in HTML files with .htacess

Generally most of web servers across the internet are configured to treat as PHP files only files that end with .php. In case you need to have your HTML files parsed as PHP (e.g .html) or even if you want to take it further and make your PHP files look like ASP, you can do the following:

For web servers using PHP as apache module:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .html .htm

For web servers running PHP as CGI:

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .html .htm

In case you wish to do the ASP mimick:

For PHP as module:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .asp

OR

For PHP as CGI:

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .asp