Re: multiple controllers on 1 page

[Brian French]

Thanks for your help! In response to my own first question, i am assuming that i am correct as i would have to call the requestAction for each block for each page unless they occure everywhere in which case i could use beforeRender() Yes I'm American and no, it's not hard to live with :-p The average American isn't as prejudice as people may believe :-p Olivier Percebois-Garve wrote: Hi I think requestAction is made for that. To avoid a method to be accessed, just use "_" as prefix e.g : function _blabla(){ //blabla } Are u american ? Isn't your lastname difficult to live with there? Brian French wrote: Im still in the process of wrapping my head around the MVC. I understand the roles of each of the elements. What i am coming across that i cant seem to figure out is how to have multiple elements work on 1 page. Example: Myspace (i know, but good example of what im talking about). On the homepage you have multiple elements: Music box, Specials box, Cool new people, and videos. In my understanding of MVC, each one of them would be a different controller, prob calling the same method name like GetBlock or something. ($specials->GetBlock();, etc. ). So, the cakephp url would be 'Specials/GetBlock'. I have ran across the method 'requestAction' which can call the multiple controllers, by the cakephp url in the page controller. Then assign it to a variable to be used in the view. Questions: 1. would i basically have to create a seperate method for each of the pages i would have? 2. would the above way of using requestAction be the right way of accomplishing this or is there a better way to do this? 3. in doing it this way, what is preventing someone from access the url 'http://www.blah.com/Specials/GetBlock'? I hope i have explained this well enough. Brian --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---