Cakephp app with mobile views

Question

I am building a cakephp app - its a food recommendation service. and i would like to have mobile views for that.

i just wanted to know of the best practise on how it can be done.

Problem is i will have to feed mobile views and city also

i wil have few cities which

so to address a City 1

its will be either city1.website.com or website.com/city

now i wanna have mobile views with this too. so

it has to either be m.site.com or site.com/m/

so how is it done the best way. and how to code it in cakephp ?

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 08 '10 at 09:16

There is a great tutorial for Cake 1.2 here that should not be too difficult to port over:

Basically you detect the mobile device within beforeFilter(); and use this to serve mobile optimized layouts.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:18

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You might want to look at this question and my answer. It might be just what you need.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:18

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answered Oct 08 '10 at 19:34

Dan Berlyoung

thanks a lot. since am including cities here. which is the best way to do it ? – Harsha M V Oct 09 '10 at 18:32

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