I need to know where to put controller and model for creating Themes as plugins in cakephp 3

Posted on November 2, 2017

I am working on Cakephp 3. I am little bit confused. I have created theme as a plugin and i want to know whether to code it in theme folder or main project folder. I want to know the general rule how to work with theme when used as a plugin, its controllers and model will be in theme folder or i have to use main application controller folder.

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Bobby

February 13, 2023

Hi there,

Just a quick follow-up on this question in case anyone comes across this in the future.

You can put them in plugins/MyPlugin/src/ for example, and then to load the classes automatically, you can add the following to your composer.json file:

{
    **"autoload"**: {
        **"psr-4"**: {
            **"MyPlugin\\"**: "plugins/MyPlugin/src/"
        }
    },
    **"autoload-dev"**: {
        **"psr-4"**: {
            **"MyPlugin\\Test\\"**: "plugins/MyPlugin/tests/"
        }
    }
}