Question

OK, so I’m trying to teach myself the CakePHP framework, and I’m trying to knock up a simple demo app for myself.

I have the controllers, views and models all set up and working, but I want to do something slightly more than the basic online help shows.

I have a guitars_controller.php file as follows…

<?php class GuitarsController extends AppController {     var $name = 'Guitars';     function index() {         $this->set('Guitars', $this->Guitar->findAll());         $this->pageTitle = 'All Guitars';     }     function view($id = null) {         $this->Guitar->id = $id;         $this->set('guitar', $this->Guitar->read());         // Want to set the title here.     } } ?> 

The ‘Guitar’ object contains an attribute called ‘Name’, and I’d like to be able to set that as the pageTitle for the individual page views.

Can anyone point out how I’d do that, please?

NB: I know that there is general disagreement about where in the application to set this kind of data, but to me, it is data related.

Answer 1

These actions are model agnostic so can be put in your app/app_controller.php file

<?php class AppController extends Controller {     function index() {         $this->set(Inflector::variable($this->name), $this->{$this->modelClass}->findAll());         $this->pageTitle = 'All '.Inflector::humanize($this->name);     }     function view($id = null) {         $data = $this->{$this->modelClass}->findById($id);         $this->set(Inflector::variable($this->modelClass), $data);         $this->pageTitle = $data[$this->modelClass][$this->{$this->modelClass}->displayField];     } } ?> 

Pointing your browser to /guitars will invoke your guitars controller index action, which doesn’t exist so the one in AppController (which GuitarsController inherits from) will be run. Same for the view action. This will also work for your DrumsController, KeyboardsController etc etc.