I haven't run into a query yet where a simple foreach loop did not suffice;
are you doing something similar like this in your views?:
<?php foreach($books as $book): ?>
<div class="book">
<h4><?php echo $html->link($book['Book']['title'],
"view/{$book['Book']['id']}"); ?></h4>
<p><?php echo $book['Book']['short_description'] ?></p>
</div>
<?php endforeach; ?>
where my controller did:
set('books', $this->Book->findAll());
That's not too bad is it?
the_woodsman wrote:
>
>
> Hi Bakers,
>
> I think there's something I'm not getting about the mechanism for
> passing data in to the view, because my attempts quickly become very
> hard to read.
>
> I'm frequently passing data from multiple Models and aggregate
> functions into my views.
> However, the format returned from Cake's query functions can't easily
> be traversed to render the page, so needs its structure changed in the
> Controller to be more usable by the View.
>
> However, with more complex pages, converting these multi dimensional
> arrays I get from queries into a usable form for a view, then iterating
> through them in the views, makes for highly unreadable and hard to
> maintain code.
>
> What solutions have people come up with to avoid such tricky multi
> dimensional arrays?
>
> I'm considering passing Objects to my view, however that means I have
> to create classes/interfaces to define the objects I'm going to pass to
> the view, or create objects on the fly, including their members and
> methods, which doesn't look fun.
>
> Someone must have surely seen this as a problem before, and found a
> nice way to deal with it?
>
> Or is there just something I'm missing?
>
> Help!!!!!!!
>
>
> >
>
>
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