In every dynamicly driving project there must exist some static content. While there are dozens of ways of doing this, we here at Techlicity do it in one of 2 ways. If your looking to serve up strictly static html pages such as privacy policy, AUP or just simple static description pages then you might want to skip all of CakePHP preprocessing to realize that your content is static.
Sometimes you just want to make a simple controller without an associated model or table. CakePHP makes this very easy while showing it's flexibility. CakePHP uses the variable $uses to associate a controller to a model, by default it uses the singular name of the controller or the $name variable.
The CakePHP framework as you know rewrites the browser URL to a friendly CakePHP implemented URL. This friendly URL reflects the policies that CakePHP follows which is the Model, View, and Controller (MVC).