Very complicated so I'm not sure that I'll help you :)
To pass information between controllers use $this->requestAction('/
controller_name/actionName');
To get GET vars use $this->params['form'];
$this means controller
On Jul 8, 2:37 am, MrKrinkle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm looking for a framework that allows more than one controller to
> handle a single request, and transparently manages the variable
> namespaces for each of them. Here is an example of what I mean:
>
> An "index" type of page, such as this forum's index, has pagination at
> the bottom. What if you wanted one page to list two forum's indexes in
> two separate lists with separate pagination, side by side on the page?
>
> The page hyperlinks "page 1", "page 2", etc, would need their own
> namespaces, so that you could be on page 3 of list A and page 8 of
> list B at the same time, on the same page.
>
> So you would need namespaces for your pagination variables. You
> couldn't just use "?page=1" for both lists. You would need something
> like:
>
> <a href="?lista-page=1">List A page 1</a> <a href="?lista-
> page=2">List A page 2</a> <a href="?lista-page=3">List A page 3</a>
>
> and:
>
> <a href="?listb-page=1">List B page 1</a> <a href="?listb-
> page=2">List B page 2</a> <a href="?listb-page=3">List B page 3</a>
>
> notice the namespaces on the variables.
>
> The above is actually not enough, even. You would need to encapsulate
> the state of each list in the GET variables. For example, if you're
> currently viewing page 3 of list B, then the variables for list A's
> pagination links would be:
>
> <a href="?lista-page=1&listb-page=3">List A page 1</a> <a href="?
> lista-page=2&listb-page=3">List A page 2</a> <a href="?lista-
> page=3&listb-page=3">List A page 3</a>
>
> Pagination is only one example of course- this applies to any GET
> variables that change state.
>
> Doing this on the session is no good- for the same old reasons- 1)
> because the users can't send the page URL to each other (the reason
> you shouldn't use session for query urls in general), and 2) The user
> could have multiple windows open...
>
> I've written a framework that does this- handles most of the work. The
> multiple controllers are in a hierarchy and their namespace is a
> reflection of their position in the tree. But I was hoping this
> already exists in some other php framework.
>
> Does CakePHP do this?
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