cakePHP custom view folder

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I have a UsersController and index() action so by default cakePHP will look for the index.ctp in Users view folder. What i would like to do is to create a separate folder called Partials and have the controller look for the view inside the folder instead. Please help as I just started my journey in cake. Thanks

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Why do you want to do that? – 93196.93
Please do response when someone tries to solve your problem or try to help you ... – Rajeev Ranjan
sorry for late reply i posted the comment when i was about to go out of the office. Yeah my boss is planning to use cakePHP and there is an existing system who does not use the cakePHP naming convension. – user3454785

1 Answers

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You can define the path to your view by $this->viewPath in your controller action. E.g. for the following folder strucuture:

custom view paths

... you can access the various templates by the following statements:

function index()
{
    // by code conventions this action automatically matches /Home/index.ctp

    $this->viewPath = "/Partials/"; // matches /Partials/index.ctp
    $this->render("mypartialview"); // matches /Partials/mypartialview.ctp
}