How does CakePHP rewrite URLs for Plugin CSS

Question

Just curious how does CakePHP rewrite Urls

.htaccess for cakephp at root is

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine on
   RewriteRule    ^$ app/webroot/    [L]
   RewriteRule    (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

which generates normal css links for CakePHP as <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/cake/css/cake.generic.css" />

/cake/css/cake.generic.css The path to this file is C:\xampp\htdocs\cake\app\webroot\css\cake.generic.css which is achieved by the above .htaccess code.

but, if we add the DebugKit (for example) or any other plugin to cakephp the css files are rewritten as <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/cake/debug_kit/css/debug_toolbar.css" />

/cake/debug_kit/css/debug_toolbar.css The path to this file is C:\xampp\htdocs\cake\app\Plugin\DebugKit\webroot\css\debug_toolbar.css

I am searching for a .htaccess file which does this, but could not find one. What is the way that CakePHP has achieved this or one can achieve this.

This is most likely not achieved by using htaccess, but rather a router script that detects which plugin the CSS file belongs to. — Daniel

mark mark · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-01T12:20:56

This is not just htaccess, this uses the AssetDispatcher: http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/development/dispatch-filters.html

This way it essentially routes the assets via CakePHP Dispatcher, which uses PHP and is a little bit more overhead than symlinking the files into webroot directly (as the docs suggest).

How does CakePHP rewrite URLs for Plugin CSS

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