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View template files are named after the controller functions they display, in an underscored form. The getReady() function of the PeopleController class will look for a view template in /app/views/people/get_ready.ctp.

The basic pattern is /app/views/controller/underscored_function_name.ctp.

By naming the pieces of your application using CakePHP conventions, you gain functionality without the hassle and maintenance tethers of configuration. Here’s a final example that ties the conventions

• Database table: "people"
• Model class: "Person", found at /app/models/person.php
• Controller class: "PeopleController", found at /app/controllers/people_controller.php
• View template, found at /app/views/people/index.ctp

Using these conventions, CakePHP knows that a request to http://example.com/people/ maps to a call on the index() function of the PeopleController, where the Person model is automatically available (and automatically tied to the ‘people’ table in the database), and renders to a file. None of these relationships have been configured by any means other than by creating classes and files that you’d need to create anyway.

Now that you've been introduced to CakePHP's fundamentals, you might try a run through the CakePHP Blog Tutorial to see how things fit together.

View template files are named after the controller functions they display, in an underscored form. The getReady() function of the PeopleController class will look for a view template in /app/views/people/get_ready.ctp.

The basic pattern is /app/views/controller/underscored_function_name.ctp.

By naming the pieces of your application using CakePHP conventions, you gain functionality without the hassle and maintenance tethers of configuration. Here’s a final example that ties the conventions

• Database table: "people"
• Model class: "Person", found at /app/models/person.php
• Controller class: "PeopleController", found at /app/controllers/people_controller.php
• View template, found at /app/views/people/index.ctp

Using these conventions, CakePHP knows that a request to http://example.com/people/ maps to a call on the index() function of the PeopleController, where the Person model is automatically available (and automatically tied to the ‘people’ table in the database), and renders to a file. None of these relationships have been configured by any means other than by creating classes and files that you’d need to create anyway.

Now that you've been introduced to CakePHP's fundamentals, you might try a run through the CakePHP Blog Tutorial to see how things fit together.