Comments on: Simple CakePHP CMS (Content Management System)

By: Perry

Perry — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 10:11:56 +0000

@rudy ??? I dont understand

By: Pedro

Pedro — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 10:11:05 +0000

@Joseph Excellent and very usefull approach. Thanks Joseph.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:59:04 +0000

Hello Seth,
There should not be any pitfalls as long as you specify your ‘Content’ model in the controller. Otherwise Cake will look for a ‘Contents’ model and give you an error. I really wanted to call that the pages controller but that would conflict with the one built into Cake. I struggled with whether to call it Contents or Content and like you pointed out Content can be a plural of itself. Since the Cake naming conventions are to use plurals for the controller names it should still be correct it just goes beyond the language abilities of cake. I normally do stick with the conventional methods. But personally I like things to make sense in the url and this was one of those cases.
Anyway, thanks for the comment and I’m glad some of this has helped you some.

By: seth

seth — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:37:58 +0000

Thank you for the great set of cakephp articles! They’re very straightforward and helpful for a novice like myself.

The only part of the CMS here that I’m uncertain about is the fact that it appears you’re deviating from the ‘Convention over Configuration’ model by naming your controller ‘content_controller’ and ‘ContentController’ instead of ‘contents_controller’ and ‘ContentsController.

I understand that ‘content’ can be used to describe singular pieces of ‘content’, and well as the whole collection of ‘content’ on your site; but are there any pitfalls I should watch out for when using what appears to be a non-standard naming convention in my app?

By: Steve Love

Steve Love — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:14:38 +0000

Thanks, Joseph. These tutorials so far really are great starting points.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Sat, 16 May 2009 16:32:51 +0000

That is a regular text field thing. When you hit enter it inputs a newline character \n. Then in your display code you can use the nl2br php function to convert newline characters to html br tags.

By: rudy

rudy — Sat, 16 May 2009 11:03:31 +0000

hey, how do you detect enters in the comments

like this