On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Stephen <step...@ninjacodermonkey.co.uk> wrote: > I personally would present a optional field in the table for an introduction > paragraph (optional), if the admin didn't want to write an introduction > paragraph I would then fall back onto creating an excerpt with php/cakephp > and simply ammend "..." to the end with a read more link.
Same thing I usually do--have both body/content and intro. Except that I create the truncated version for intro upon save (if intro doesn't exist, obviously) so that it's unnecessary to do so when displaying the view (caching aside,, of course). > I would allow the admin to set the amount of characters as a preference. But where do you save the pref? I just set the length as a class var in the model. That means that it's not configurable by an admin, but there's unlikely to be a need to changed it much. Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://cakeqs.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en
