How To Customize Main Layout of Error Pages in cakePHP

To customize the contents of each cakePHP errors, you need to create the following pages in this folder /app/views/errors/

- error404.ctp

- missing_action.ctp

- missing_component_class.ctp

- missing_component_file.ctp

- missing_connection.ctp

- missing_controller.ctp

- missing_helper_class.ctp

- missing_helper_file.ctp

- missing_layout.ctp

- missing_model.ctp

- missing_scaffolddb.ctp

- missing_table.ctp

- missing_view.ctp

- private_action.ctp

- scaffold_error.ctp

But cakePHP is using /views/layouts/default.ctp as layout for these error pages like 404, missing controller, etc. To customize it, you need to create a file /app/app_error.php with the following contents:

class AppError extends ErrorHandler {



function _outputMessage($template) {

$this->controller->layout = 'error_template'; // /app/views/layouts/error_template.ctp

parent::_outputMessage($template);

}



}

And create a template file "error_template.ctp" in /app/views/layouts.

Hope this one helps.

Parthiv Patel

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