Hello, I could not find the answer searching, so if anyone has a
solution, I'd greatly appreciate it.

I'm using cake for many different applications on our web server. I
have a shared directory where I keep the core cake files and then for
each new application, I bring over the app files and go from there.

I've developed several components to handle date processing, data
filtering, etc that I'd like each application to have access to without
having to copy the compent file to each app's controllers/components
directory. I'd like to have these component files live in a shared
directory somewhere. Also, though, I'd like the ability to create
application specific components if need be. I thought about creating a
symbolic link, but then I cannot create app specific components.

Does anyone have a recommendation on allowing mutliple apps use a
shared component that lives in one location?

Thanks much,
-Aidan
http://aidanslair.com

You can set $componentPaths as an array of alternate loading paths in
app/config/bootstrap.php

in my world my components and helper directories are kept in a
seperate svn repository and then checked out as externals to the
deployment and test applications. This way I share them all with all
my client applications, and it helps me define ownership of those as
seperate entities from the 'clients' code.

Sam D

On 9/19/06, nate <nate.ab...@gmail.com> wrote:

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So Nate when he defines that in the bootstrap will it still look in the
cake/libs/controllers/components, the app/controllers/components/ and
the $componentPaths he defines?

I think what you are saying is that will link up all the applications
to use one shared component directory.  Now, whether the applications
actually share the components is up to him and his applications correct?

Wow, great community. Thank you very much for the responses. using
$componentPaths was exactly what I needed. Also running some tests
using the standard core components like Session also work so it seems
that this just appends the paths to the default paths. This is great!

I saw the cake/libs/controllers/components dir but didnt' want to put
them there either because I wanted to keep the core cake dir pure for
ease of cake core upgrading.

Thanks all!

-Aidan

Glad you knew enough to know that there was a nice CakePHP way to solve
your problem and make upgrading and maintaining very easy!