On May 7, 2007, at 2:20 PM, Greg Cerveny wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I'm creating a sample cakephp app just to play with.
>
> Question 1: Layouts
>
> I want to greet the user and keep that at the top of every page (ie Hi
> Greg), however none of the variables I set seem to be available to my
> layout file.  Are we able to pass more than the pagetitle into the
> layout files?

How are you doing this? I'm pretty sure set() will do that.

> Question 2: Menus
>
> I want to include a navigational menu for the users.  Is this best
> included in an element or view?
>
> I noticed the elements seem to be called from directly views, with
> arrays passed in.  Seems like a bit of extra data pushing to send
> information to a view, and then into an element, but on the other
> hand, it seems like a highly reusable component best suited for an
> element.

I'd use an element in conjunction with requestAction() to just get  
the data for the element. When you use rA() to render a whole view,  
that's pretty expensive, but using rA() to grab the view/element vars  
isn't bad at all.

-- John

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