I'm not a new programmer (I'd say advanced beginner/intermediate) but I'm quite new to Cake and MVC in general.
I've decided best way to learn CakePHP and MVC is to take an existing (functional, live) project and port it to Cake for kicks. Get the grand tour of all the basics. In my existing project I have a number of utility classes that are used by the other classes. 2 of them are an Item class and a Banking class. Item obviously contains all the information about a user's inventory, plus handles updating/deducting items, as well as using items. Banking does just that- tracks a user's currency and handles transactions. Banking is used between the Shop systems, Item is used by Shop and various action classes. So I need a way to share their functionality between all the various other controllers that require them. Simple example would be the user wants to buy an item from the shop, have to verify the item is in stock, the item's price, that the player has the currency to pay for it, deliver the item, deduct the payment and deduct the item from shop inventory. While a different Controller (say, Toll Bridge) needs the Banking functions to verify the user has the funds to pay the toll, then debit the transaction. It SOUNDS like what I need to do is to create Banking & Item Components, then the other controllers can make use of them as needed. However, this would also require including various queries to chat with the database. The CakePHP example on Components only shows a simple math operation with passed params, and says nothing about if using Components as little "bundles" of functionality that involve their own validations and database interactions (although this is strongly implied) There is some conversation on the 'net that what actually needs to happen is Banking and Item should be controllers, and they get imported as needed. What's the best way to go about this? -- Like Us on FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/CakePHP Find us on Twitter http://twitter.com/CakePHP --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
