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Chapter 8: Last-Minute Upgrades

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Updating the Welcome Controller

Now that you ’ ve built the administrative tools to manage pages, tie this into the Welcome controller so

that you can display pertinent information on select pages — such as the About Us page, the Privacy

page, and the Contact page.

Open the Welcome controller in a text editor, and scroll down to the end, where you should see three

stub functions for about_us() , contact() , and privacy(). You ’ re going to delete those three and

replace them with a single function called pages(). Why? Because it makes no sense to give Claudia

unlimited capability to create new pages, but no way to add those pages except through hard - coded

controller functions.

Here ’ s what the pages() function will look like when you ’ re done:

function pages($path){

$page = $this- > MPages- > getPagePath($path);

$data[‘main’] = ‘page’;

$data[‘title’] = $page[‘name’];

$data[‘page’] = $page;

$data[‘navlist’] = $this- > MCats- > getCategoriesNav();

$this- > load- > vars($data);

$this- > load- > view(‘template’);

}

Figure 8 - 4