Comments on: Setting Your Page Layout in CakePHP

By: How to create custom layout for your website in CakePHP « Myles Kadusale’s Blog

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By: mzee.richo

mzee.richo — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:36:18 +0000

Nice stuff . You kids or guys are very bright . i was having issues with stuff . nice stuff

By: rachel

rachel — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:55:37 +0000

@Kiran, you set variables in layout just like how you do it in any views file. So for this instance, you can use the $cats['cats']['name'] = 'whatever here'; $this->set('cats', $cats) to send any info in your default.ctp and display it in the layout like

By: kiran

kiran — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:36:24 +0000

hi i have to send an array containing category and brand names to my layout file – default.ctp. My html – section has some javasript code. I want to place content from above array into that js. like – mm_menu = “location:

By: Smart Pad

Smart Pad — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:50:35 +0000

To ajk, I think the title can be set in your controller by the following;

$this->set(‘title’, ‘your page title’);

By: cyrose

cyrose — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:07:36 +0000

Hi ajk,

About your question, $title_for_layout will get the filename of your views files minus the “.ctp” and will use it as your title. This is true if your views files are located inside app/views/pages folder. But if you have created your own folder inside views, say app/views/registers, the name of the folder will now be the page title for all views files inside app/views/registers.

However, if you wish to customize your title, you can do that using $pageTitle controller variable. You will put it on your controller file. To show what I mean, here’s a sample code:

class RegistersController extends AppController {
var $name = ‘Registers’;

function index() {
$this->pageTitle = ‘Manage Admin Panel’;
$this->checkSession();
}

So now, if you will open the page say url/registers/index on your browser, the tilte bar will show ‘Manage Admin Panel’.

Thanks,
Cyrose

By: ajk

ajk — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:24:28 +0000

where do you save the definitions variables ($title_for_layout)?