CakePHP - Web page try to load all the js files in the webroot

Question

I have a big project using CakePHP. I have a web page and I only want it to load the js files in a subfolder of webroot but it seems like loading all the js files in the webroot

I want files in this directory

/webroot/js/signaturepad

and in my code I wrote:

echo $this->Html->script(array(
                '/js/signaturepad/TopazSignature',
                '/js/signaturepad/SigWebTablet'
            ), array('inline' => false));

So it supposes to read these two js files only while in the page source I can see tons of js files in the webroot been loaded. And my js functions are not working at all.

Answer 1

I want files in this directory

/webroot/js/signaturepad

start paths without slash '/' and 'js' folder name, like:

echo $this->Html->script(array(
         'subfolder/your_js_file_name_here',
         'subfolder/your_js_file_name_here.min'
     ), array('inline' => false));

This generate path like example.com/js/subfolder/your_js_file_name_here.js

If you want use other folder inside webroot folder, for example: 'frontend' then start path with slash '/'.

echo $this->Html->script(array(
         '/frontend/your_js_file_name_here',
         '/forntend/your_js_file_name_here.min'
     ), array('inline' => false));

This generate path like example.com/frontend/your_js_file_name_here.js