hey branden,
This might help you.
I'm doing a similar thing with my admin area so I have a simple
admincontroller that grabs info from a few different models and
dosen't require a specific admin model at all.
Looks something like this:
class AdminController extends AppController
{
/* CakePHP attributes */
/* Name of this controller */
var $name = 'Admin';
/* uses no models */
var $uses = array(
'Image',
'ImageVersion',
'Group',
'User'
);
Note the $uses array. Here I'm pulling in the models I might need to
use but if and Admin model is not included it doesn't look for one.
For your purposes you could do a similar thing and use whatever models you like.
Hope this helps,
Freedom
On 01/09/06, dmancan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I'm currently testing cakePHP to decide if our company should switch
> over. I have a quick question which I'm sure is a snap for you gurus to
> answer.
>
> I want my homepage to draw a collection of requests from various
> database tables....each dataset will populate various elements on the
> homepage. The homepage has no db table.
>
> If I use the pagecontroller I only get static content from the static
> home.thtml template. If I create a new controller and set the routing
> to use a new controller and view, I have to create a model and database
> table, but I don't need a homepage table.
>
> I'm definately missing something here..
>
> How do I get data to the homepage without having a model and matching
> table?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> >
>
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