In an attempt to keep my scripts maintainable, I\'m going to move each into their own file, organised by controller and action:
// scripts which only apply t
The best way I can think of is to create your own custom AppView and have all your controllers use that:
class myController extends AppController {
var view = 'AppView';
...
}
Then, somewhere in your AppView, you'd want to do something like:
function __construct(&$controller, $register){
parent::__construct($controller,$register);
$this->addScript('<script type="text/javascript" src="/path/to/js/' . $this->controller . '/' . $this->action . '.js"></script>');
}
But I'd take a step back and think about a few things, first.
How big are your scripts, on average? Is the overhead of an external script call (before the script is cached by the client) better than adding a few hundred bytes to your main output stream (by just sticking the script into the page, inline)?
Perhaps you'd be better of somewhere in the middle -- split your scripts up by controller, but not action. That way, after the first visit to any action, the client has all scripts for all actions. This way, you avoid a big initial download for all the application's script, but you avoid adding N http round-trips (where N is the number of actions a brand new user visits).
Another way to approach the problem is to do it all in javascript. Just figure out a lazy-loading scheme. So your app just loads a very small loader.js, and that script figures out which other javascript sources to pull in.
Note: I've never tested my extend-the-view hack, but I bet it'll work if you really want to do this.
Very easy to do in your default.ctp
layout file:
An example to automatically include .css
files per controller and/or controller/action (because I had this lying around, easily adaptable to .js
files):
<head>
...
<?php
if (is_file(WWW_ROOT . 'css' . DS . $this->params['controller'] . '.css')) {
echo $html->css($this->params['controller']);
}
if (is_file(WWW_ROOT . 'css' . DS . $this->params['controller'] . DS . $this->params['action'] . '.css')) {
echo $html->css($this->params['controller'] . '/' . $this->params['action']);
}
?>
...
</head>
Kinda new to this, but after reading this added the following to my layout:
if ($handle = opendir(WWW_ROOT . 'js' . DS . $this->params['controller'] . DS . $this->params['action']))
{
while (false !== ($entry = readdir($handle)))
{
$entry = str_replace(".js", "", $entry);
echo $this->Html->script($entry);
}
closedir($handle);
}