You can create static pages in cakePHP by adding .ctp files under /app/views/pages folder and can access it using the URI http://sitename/pages/pagename.ctp.
Try creating two files page1.ctp and page2.ctp and add those files under /app/views/pages folder.
page1.ctp
<h1>Page 1</h1> <p>Static Content for page 1 goes here</p>
page2.ctp
<h1>Page 1</h1> <p>Static Content for page 1 goes here</p>
How to fix Google Chrome Error?
i) Close the chrome browser
ii) From the shortcut on your desktop or from task bar right click “Chrome” and select properties.
iii) For the “Target” option add “–no-sandbox” towards the end.
iv) Now restart chrome and everything should work fine.
When XML files are read from RSS feeds or from other sources, it is necessary that they both use the same standard encoding. When there is a conflict, strange characters like ‘, ’ gets shown on the browsers.
In RSS feeds, UTF-8 is the standard encoding scheme that is used and if a browser using ISO-8859-1 tries to read and display the data from the feed then these characters get passed on to the display.
To avoid having this strange characters displyed on screen (where ISO-8859-1 encoding is used), PHP’s iconv function comes in handy and you can use it like
echo iconv(“UTF-8″,”ISO-8859-1//TRANSLIT”, $temp_item['encoded']);
and this will remove those characters and replace it with the nearest possible character during its tranliteration.
This is an easy and elegant way to prompt user messages or to seek user inputs. The author of this tool had cleanly explained its various usage by giving examples which is again easy to follow.
Check out the extension at http://trentrichardson.com/Impromptu/index.php
How to read RSS feeds (XML file) and display contents in CakePHP?
Parsing an XML feed can be done in simple steps as follows in CakePHP …
CakePHP Controller: /app/controllers/rss_controller.php
<?php
/**
* CakePHP Controller to parse XML file
*/
class RssController extends AppController{
var $name = "Rss";
// As the RSS will not currently use a database
var $uses = array();
var $feed_url = "http://kurinchilamp.kurinchilion.com/feed";
var $rss_item = array();
function index(){
App::import('Xml');
$parsed_xml =& new XML($this->feed_url);
// xml to array conversion
$this->rss_item = $parsed_xml->toArray();
$this->set('data', $this->rss_item['Rss']['Channel']['Item']);
}
}
?>
CakePHP View: /app/views/rss/index.ctp
I thought to mention a few errors beginners into CakePHP might come across when configuring CakePHP and how to resolve
Notice: this error is being rendered by the app/views/errors/missing_table.thtml view file, a user-customizable error page.
This error occurs when the database is not configured in cakePhp. First create a database in MySQL or the database of your choice. Go to /app/config/ and make a copy of database.php.default and rename it to database.php. Open database.php and give the necessary settings of the new database created with the associated login credentials. Once that is done, refresh the page and see if that error is now resolved.
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.htaccess – Purpose, Considerations
.htaccess is a hidden file in the web server which comes in handy when the sites are hosted in shared environment.
Considerations:
Slight hit to performance takes place when .htaccess directive is set as Apache checks each directory for its existence before any file access in that directory
Next consideration will be with regards how the site owners manage the setting changes and its security which can be misused.
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How to check if mod_rewrite is disabled in Apache when CakePHP is installed?
Initially when CakePHP is downloaded from sourceforge and is installed in your localhost, you can test if it is working or not by going to the respective directory in your local host http://localhost/cake.
If CSS styling is missing in the display page, then check apache server’s httpd.conf file to see if mod_rewrite module is enabled. Remove the comment symbol to enable mod_rewrite in your localhost and restart Apache server for the change to take effect
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