On Apr 5, 2007, at 4:14 PM, rtconner wrote:

>
> Is there a way to have two applications share a Model, and possibly
> some componants and helpers also?
>
> I realize in general most applications will have different data sets
> and sharing Models will make no sense at all. However if you use the
> same model twice with two different database configs, now you are
> using similar data sets, just on different databases. Also it has
> crossed my mind that I could have an internal and external application
> both sharing the same data (Why not share models also?). I know I can
> just copy and paste files into the new directories. That gets to be a
> pain when you modify files and add code or fix bugs. Now you have to
> maintain two files, such a pain.
>
> In short, if I have two applications both with User tables, I only
> want to write and maintain one User Model class.
>
> Any ideas? Only thing I can think of is to put them into the cake/ 
> libs/
> models folder. I'm not even sure if that would work anyways.

Didja try a symlink?

You might also just check the Model into SVN and use it in both places.

-- John

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