Hi, I would like to take the results of a form post and use a controller action to render a view and write it to a file on the file system. So, in essence, I'm using the view as a file template so that I can write the data to the file system in various formats.
Basically, I'm taking very large forms, saving a few fields of data in a model for searching later, but writing the whole form post to a file for display later. The form definitions are saved in the database, so that the admin can add/remove fields and re-render the form at any time to be completed by users. I don't need to save all 150 form fields to a model, as most of the information is not supposed to be searchable and is fairly static. Also, the form questions will change over time. So, I want to write the whole thing out as an html file that can be found by searching a few key fields and pulled from the file system for viewing. I see that $controller->requestAction returns the results to a variable, just wondering about performance, if there was any benefit to doing this in a more direct way, since the 'action' I'm requesting is really built only for this reason. In other words, I'm not going to use the controller method ever to display the results to the browser, I just want to build a simple tool to parse form submissions into various formats, a simple template tool, without re-inventing the wheel. Thanks, Brian --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
