In the world of the blog example, I want to have an "approve" feature added to the comments model. This will allow two pieces of functionality
1) regular pages will only render "approved" comments for a post 2) special admin pages will render a table of all comments for a post (approved or not) allowing the admin to see at a glance which posts are approved or not. Sounds simple enough. The post controller does a recursive find to get a post and its comments. However this returns a big fat array of all the required data and does not use my yummy objects. I can read a specific database field to find if something is approved or not, but this is not very OO. I would like to add an "is_approved" method to my Comment object. But how would I use this new method? Can I easily instantiate a Comment object with the data that has already been returned (without looking it up in the db again?) Am I thinking along sensible lines? For a more realistic example, imagine that the "is_approved" method, in fact, had to look at a number of different pieces of data to compute its result. Mark --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
