it's true i don't respect the conventions all the time, because in some cases this can bring significant speed gains (necessary on heavily accessed sites). however, if you're kind enough to share, i would like to know 'the cake way' for this: i have to show on one page different kind of information ( totally unrelated ) - so i think i can't use only one controller (or maybe i'm mistaking), and on top of that, i want something that is called only once at the top of the page to perform several actions (log/set variables etc).
thanks for your patience, Cristian On Nov 2, 11:56 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sounds like you're not doing it the cake way. > > If you really really want to do that, your best bet is to use > loadModel. To be honest, what you're doing doesn't really fit the > cake, or MVC model particularly well, so if I were you I would look at > elements as an alternative to all the requestActions. > > If you stick to Cake's conventions based approach, your best bet is > still to do the work in app_controller, or a component. > > Simon > > On Nov 2, 9:43 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If I write that in the startup function of the component it will be > > called for the every controller in a page (which is not good because I > > use 'requestAction' a lot so startup will be called more than once). > > What I was actually thinking is to create my own class and call the > > initialization somewhere in bootstrap, but i don't know how to use a > > model by itself in a custom class. > > > On Nov 2, 2:43 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What you probably want to do is write a component and handle your > > > logging in the startup function. > > > > You probably also want to be using the component to inform the > > > controller as to layout / views to use for the skinning. Depending on > > > your controllers, there are all sorts of ways you could do this, > > > ranging from $controller->layout = 'skin' in component startup to a > > > beforeRender filter. > > > > To get access to the db tables in your component, you'll have to use > > > loadModel to grab instances for the logging and prefs etc. > > > > Pages controller is something totally different. It is a simple > > > controller to just display views from the /app/views/pages directory > > > without the hastle of creating actions. Essentially it is for static > > > content. However, it could be informed by your component to change the > > > layout (skin) around static content and to log user progress if you > > > add your component to AppController in /app/app_controller.php. > > > > Hope that helps. > > > > Simon > > > > On Nov 2, 12:30 pm, Cristian Vrabie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > hi everybody, > > > > i'm new to phpcake organization model and i'm having some problems > > > > integrating some classes. maybe you can give me a hand. > > > > > i need a "visitor" class that will be responsible with tracking a site > > > > 'visitor' (not a user), keep a track and use his settings (like language > > > > and skin preferences) via cookies and similar stuff. the thing with this > > > > is: i don't know if this should be a controller or a component. i would > > > > say it's a controller because it hase it's own models (like log tables, > > > > preferences table, etc), but then, it has no view and must be called > > > > (initialized) on every page before everything else, and be accesible > > > > from any other controller. > > > > > what should i do? i saw a page_controller somewhere and i think i can > > > > use that but i'm not sure how? > > > > > what do you sugest. i'm sure this is a preaty common practice. what do > > > > you use? > > > > > thanks, > > > > Cristian --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
