Question

Is it possible to set different layouts for different errors in cakephp1.3?

this is my AppError class

function _outputMessage($template) {
    $this->controller->beforeFilter();
    $this->controller->render($template);
    $this->controller->afterFilter();
    echo $this->controller->output;
}

function error404($params) {
    extract($params, EXTR_OVERWRITE);
    header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
    $this->error(array('code' => '404',
                    'name' => 'Not found',
                    'message' => sprintf("page not found %s", $url, $message),
                    'base' => $base));

    exit();
}

function item404($params) {
    extract($params, EXTR_OVERWRITE);
    header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");

    $this->error(array('code' => '404',
                    'name' => 'Not found',
                    'message' => sprintf("Item not found %s", $url, $message),
                    'base' => $base));

    exit();
}

I want to have layout “error” and layout “itemerror”, respectively.
I have tried setting the layout in the functions, but it does not work.

Any help appreciated,

Answer 1

Sure, just change the layout of the controller.

$this->controller->layout = 'error_layout';

This assumes you continue using the default _outputMessage() method.

function _outputMessage($template) {
    // can be set in the error method
    $this->controller->layout = 'error_layout';
    parent::_outputMessage($template);
}