Yes cake can do that. Essentially you will have your news view, and it will have that layout like built in. Then in the controller after doing some sort of check to see what variable in the url has been set , like a number that corresponds to a news article, then the controller will be like hey model give me the news for this id. The model will send it back and using $this->set in the controller it will then set that variable to be able to be used in the view. So for example $this->set('article',$variable['New']['article']); the reason it is New and not News is because of the naming conventions that cake has, but those can be changed if you want to. Then in the view it would have your layout , and wherever you wanted to say display the article you would just go <? echo($article); ?> bam your article is posted right there, inside of your static layout.
On Nov 13, 8:20 pm, jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. I have a couple questions regarding static/dynamic content > mixing. I have a site to build that is largely informational, but has > news, events etc. The news and events will be on pages that will have > 80% static content. Can i use something like the PagesController to > create pages like this? > > so a three column layout (with a header about these columns), would > have the navigation to the left (mostly static) the center (all > static) and then a box in the right hand column that would have news > that pertained to the page being viewed. > > I'll need to display this content, both dynamic and static, in both > english and spanish based on user option. > > I'd like to use a framework like cake for when this content stops > being so static. But while it is, i can't ask the maintainers to > paste content in a db column to update it. > > Thanks for any assistance. > > Jeff --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---