Is it possible to theme a plugin's view? I have a mobile theme for mobile devices and would like to use different view files for a plugins app/views as well. I have tried app/views/themed/THEME/plugin/... and /app/plugins/PLUGIN/views/themed/THEME/...none seem to work. Thanks in advance.
Cakephp 2.x supports this without having to make any code changes:
If you (can) convert to using cakephp 2.x then yes you can (automatically). The view paths for a theme 'mytheme' and a plugin 'Permissions' would be:
Array
(
[0] => /var/vhosts/Project/htdocs/app/View/Themed/Mytheme/Plugin/Permissions/
[1] => /var/vhosts/Project/htdocs/app/View/Themed/Mytheme/
[2] => /var/vhosts/Project/htdocs/app/View/Plugin/Permissions/
[3] => /var/vhosts/Project/htdocs/app/Plugin/Permissions/View/
[4] => /var/vhosts/Project/htdocs/app/View/
[5] => /var/vhosts/Project/htdocs/lib/Cake/View/
[6] => /var/vhosts/Project/htdocs/lib/Cake/Console/Templates/skel/View/
)
So if you had Users/index.ctp in the plugin and wanted to override it you would edit:
/var/vhosts/Project/htdocs/app/View/Themed/Mytheme/Plugin/Permissions/Users/index.ctp
for the themed version OR:
/var/vhosts/Project/htdocs/app/View/Plugin/Permissions/Users/index.ctp
for the non themed version