Override Directories

Override views

To override default views, create a directory override in the application root:

$ ls
app_controller.php  config  controllers  index.php  install  INSTALL.md  LICENSE.txt  models  override  plugins  README.md  tmp  vendors  views  webroot

Now you can place a views directory inside it, and replicate the structure of the views you want to override. For example you can replace a help.ctp page creating override/views/pages/help.ctp .

For developers

This behaviour is defined in app_controller.php’s beforeFilter function.

Local webroot

Default webroot behaviour is different from the above. Basically you can freely choose where to place files under webroot, so taolin has no conventions for this.

Our main project has a symbolic link from webroot/local to a directory under revision control (outside cake/taolin/ application) where we a keep local webroot.