The Pages Controller

CakePHP ships with a default controller PagesController.php. This is a simple and optional controller for serving up static content. The home page you see after installation is generated using this controller. If you make the view file templates/Pages/about_us.ctp you can access it using the url http://example.com/pages/about_us. You are free to modify the Pages Controller to meet your needs.

The Pages Controller is part of your application, in src/Controller/PagesController.php. It is included in the pieceofcake2/app skeleton, and when you create a project with the Bake plugin it is copied from the plugin's Console/Templates/skel/Controller/ folder. In the legacy app/ layout, the controller is in app/Controller/ and the page views in app/View/Pages/.

Changed in version 2.1

With CakePHP 2.0 the Pages Controller was part of lib/Cake. Since 2.1 the Pages Controller is no longer part of the core but ships in the app folder.

WARNING

Do not directly modify ANY file under vendor/pieceofcake2/cakephp/, where Composer installs the framework, to avoid issues when updating the core in future.