Question

I am working in cakephp, and I have the following two lines in my /app/config/routes.php file:

/**
 * ...and setup admin routing
 */
 Router::connect('/admin/:controller/:action/*', array('action' => null, 'prefix' => 'admin', 'admin' => true, 'layout' => 'admin' ));
/**
 * ...and set the admin default page
 */
 Router::connect('/admin', array('controller' => 'profiles', 'action' => 'index', 'admin' => true, 'layout' => 'admin'));

I also have a layout at /app/views/layouts/admin.ctp

However, the layout is not changed when I visit admin URLs

Answer 1

Create a app/app_controller.php and put this in:

<?php
class AppController extends Controller {

    function beforeFilter() {
        if (isset($this->params['prefix']) && $this->params['prefix'] == 'admin') {
            $this->layout = 'admin';
        } 
    }

}

Don’t forget to call parent::beforeFilter(); in your controllers if you use it in other controllers.

Semi related to the question, you don’t need the routes defined, you just need to enable Routing.admin config option and set it to admin in the app/config/core.php. (CakePHP 1.2)