CakePHP: organise controllers in subfolders

Question

Is it possible in CakePHP to organise controllers (and models) in subfolders? Thanks.

Addend

Answer 1

Yes you can, but it is deprecated. See the discussion here. The last post on this page describes how to do it in the bootstrap.

Meatiness

Oh, specifying additional paths! I could do that, but why deprecated? Should I use plugins instead? It's just because my website is divided into sections, each one very separated from the other ones, and I'd like to organise a bit the code (I've got a lot of files!). – Addend

I actually have no idea, as this was promoted in earlier versions. Plugins seem to be the way to go. – Meatiness

Discussions are not decisions and this depreciation content in the answer answer is simply not accurate. – Rogers

Answer 2

It's not deprecated at all. You can accomplish this using the App:build and point to your subfolders. For example, if you want to put all of your Twitter models in Model/Twitter to keep your code organized, you can add the following to the bootstrap.php:

App::build(array(
    'Model' => array(APP . 'Model' . DS . 'Twitter' . DS),
));

Now, any model file you put in Model/Twitter will be available when you call it.

See more here: http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/core-utility-libraries/app.html#App::build

Mare

Answer 3

For those of you looking for a CakePhp3 version of this answer here is a link to the routing documentation. Use router prefixing that matches your controller sub-namespaces / directory structure.

http://book.cakephp.org/3.0/en/development/routing.html#prefix-routing

Rogers

Answer 4

In CakePHP 3 you can define additional class paths in your composer.json (see http://book.cakephp.org/3.0/en/development/configuration.html#additional-class-paths)

Btw if you want to organize your template files in subfolders you have to add their paths in your app.php at App.paths http://book.cakephp.org/3.0/en/development/configuration.html#general-configuration

Just in case someone else is searching for this piece of information... ;)

Archdeaconry