Generally, it's bad practice for a View to perform direct finds against a
Model. Even when the model is related to a view via convention, it is
usually the controller that has performed the find, and executed a
$this->set(compact('modelData')) or similar to expose the model data to a
view.
With that in mind, you can expose any model to the view via the controller,
by finding the data in the controller, and exposing via $this->set(). You
just may need to the unrelated models in the controller via
$this->loadModel(), or in the $uses variable of the controller, if it is
used often.
In the View or in Elements, you may be able to use $this->requestAction()
to call a specific controller action to get data to display in a View or
Element, however, this is not something I do, so someone else or the
CakePHP Book may have better guidelines on actual usage.
Regards
Reuben Helms
On Monday, 20 January 2014 12:32:05 UTC+10, Sam wrote:
>
> From what I understand from cakephp, a view is associated to a model and
> can only access the model's data. Is it possible for a View to access
> another unrelated Model's data? What I mean is whether it is possible for a
> view to access any database table's data, even if it is unrelated?
>
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