you can send a variable to the element:
renderElement('my_element', array('data' => $data));
it's really useful :)
spark
On 7/2/07, Ski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am writing an application which enables editing of data for a
> parent model and a data for a list of child models in a single view.
>
> To make the code easier to re-use, I would like to keep the views
> for the parent and child separate - as they would be normally for each
> controller, but I would still like to have these views exist on the
> same page at the same time.
>
> As I understand it cakephp cannot do composition in this way, so
> have to resort to renderElement.
>
> Unfortunately, renderElement does not have the access to the data as
> the view does, so I cannot use the same style of form construction
> that can be used with individual views?
>
> Is there a way to nest views by composition, or is there a
> workaround other than requestAction that would let me display a page
> that I can edit parents and children on the same page without having
> one giant form / view file...
>
> Thanks
>
> Glen
>
>
> >
>
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