Hi, I'm quite new to working with Cake and I'm pretty sure that I'm asking something obvious - so I'm sorry for that in advance. In my defence, I've tried checking the manual, API, searching on here etc. and haven't found the answer to my question (or maybe not understood the answer to my question!).
I'm going to have a login box on every page of my site which will form part of the site header / mast head. If the user is not logged in it will display the login box, and if they are it'll display some member-only type functions (e.g. edit profile, logout etc.). I'm not quite sure how to go about that in Cake - in terms of where to define my various pieces of code. Obviously the login processing stuff belongs in a user controller, but other than that? I'm thinking that my login box is what Cake terms an 'element' - I've only come across these used in views; can they also be used in a layout (is there are significant difference between layouts and views)? Assuming that's right, where do I check to see if the user is logged in or out - is it "appropriate" (i.e. best practice) to put that logic in the layout? That seems to make sense to me since it's only deciding which display element to use? Thanks in advance for putting up with my questions. Damien --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
