AD7six, thanks for your feedback. below are some further thoughts. > The above sounds rather over complex to me. What is the benefit of > making several 'models' for one model? (The fact that I ask should > imply that I don't percieve any of the above reasons as a benefit).
Here is another example (just an example)... Lets say we have a dedicated site menu and a dedicated admin menu. The site menu is stored in table 'site_menu' and the admin one in 'admin_menu'. Both share the same table structure, so many of the functions and views for managing them are the same. However, there may be a few possible functions you may call in the 2 models when saving that are different to one another. So... by keeping the $name variable in both the as 'Menu', this means one could use 1 set of controllers and views to manage both sets of tables, and therefor reduce the amount of code one writes. This is just one theory or example. Lets not debate why one would create 2 tables that in reality are the same structure. This is merely an example for us to work with. > You are refering to plural or _controller? I can�t remember the > specifics but when the _controller was dropped there were naming > conflicts. > > > Surely to remain consistent, one should keep the > > naming convention the same all across? My personal preference would be > > that they are all named according to their class name, so much like > > the current controllers are. I understand the impact this would have, > > but I think that this would help keep a stronger convention on the > > naming of the files. > > If anything were to change I prefer writing less :). > I agree with what you are saying about writing less. If this is the case then, perhaps the controller filename would be better being the same as the helpers, components etc. filename = users.php; class = UsersController. Then the same theory should perhaps apply to the models to maintain consistency... filename = user.php; class = UserModel. Overall this would be adopting better conformity to the conventions across the files and class names. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
