for script and CSS files Layouts Using layouts from plugins Elements Passing Variables into an Element Caching Elements Requesting Elements from a Plugin 2.0 2.1 Creating your own view classes View showing a typical CakePHP request Figure: 2. Typical CakePHP Request. Black = required element, Gray = optional element, Blue = callback 1. Ricardo clicks the link pointing to http://www.example.com/cakes/buy it is assumed to be a view or element file relative to the /app/View folder. This allows direct rendering of elements, very useful in AJAX calls. // Render the element in /View/Elements/ajaxreturn.ctp

showing a typical CakePHP request Figure: 2. Typical CakePHP Request. Black = required element, Gray = optional element, Blue = callback 1. Ricardo clicks the link pointing to http://www.example.com/cakes/buy it is assumed to be a view or element file relative to the /app/View folder. This allows direct rendering of elements, very useful in AJAX calls. // Render the element in /View/Elements/ajaxreturn.ctp conjunction with (cached) elements – as a way to fetch data for an element before rendering. Let’s use the example of putting a “latest comments” element in the layout. First we need to create a controller function

Routing Custom Route Classes for Resource Routes URL Inflection for Resource Routes Changing the Path Element Passed Arguments Generating URLs RouterBuilder::url RouterBuilder::reverse Using Router::url() for Script and CSS Files Layouts Using Layouts from Plugins Elements View::element() Passing Variables into an Element Caching Elements Requesting Elements from a Plugin Routing prefix and Elements // In a view template file, we'll render an 'element' for each user.