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Download

You can download a zip of the component at http://sandbox.pseudocoder.com/demo/layout.

Example

http://sandbox.pseudocoder.com and http://sandbox.siteamonth.com are actually the same site. Using the LayoutSwitcher component changes the design based on which URL your are visiting.

Usage

1. CakePHP either 1.1 or 1.2
2. Download the component and unzip the contents to app/controllers/components.
3. Include the component in your /app/app_contoller.php so that it will work on every page. Download code var $components = array('LayoutSwitcher');  

4. Create layout files for each domain you want to have a distinct look. The templates should be named domain.thtml and placed in the normal layout folder, /app/views/layouts. For example the sites referenced above have layouts sandbox.pseudocoder.com.thtml and sandbox.siteamonth.com.thtml. Leave off the "www.".

Tips

1. Make a symlink from default.thtml to the layout to be defaulted to in case someone reaches the site from some other url.
2. Organize your CSS in a similar way to your layouts. The two stylesheets for the example sites are pseduocoder.style.css and sitamonth.style.css. You can have a third, common.style.css, that is included first for styles that are common to both sites.
3. You can always override the automatically selected layout in your controller in the same way you'd override the default layout.
4. This component doesn't work if cache is enabled. All domains will get the cached view.

Component Class:

Download code <?php 
/*
 * Layout Switcher CakePHP Component
 * Copyright (c) 2007 Matt Curry
 * www.PseudoCoder.com
 *
 * @author      mattc <matt@pseudocoder.com>
 * @version     1.0
 * @license     MIT
 *
 */

class LayoutSwitcherComponent extends Object {
  var $controller;
  var $components = array('RequestHandler');

  function startup(&$controller) {
    uses('Folder');

    $this->controller = $controller;

    //get the domain used
    $domain = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];

    //remove any www.
    $domain = str_replace('www.', '', $domain);

    //check if a layout exists for this server
    $folder =& new Folder(LAYOUTS);
    $files = $folder->find($domain . '.(thtml|ctp)');

    //should only be one match
    if (count($files) != 1) {
      return;
    }

    //set the layout
    //only if not ajax
    if(!$this->RequestHandler->isAjax()) {
      $this->controller->layout = $domain;
    }
  }
}
?>