Sorry, but I've just been told about loadModel(), which does exactly this. I did Google first, I swear.
If anybody would like to comment on the advantages/drawbacks of working like this though, I'd be interested to hear your thoughts. Benjamin On Jan 28, 12:15 pm, boyracerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi to all, > > I'm currently getting stuck in to my first major CakePHP application. > > I'm writing the search functionality, one of the requirements for > which is a unified search which can return different combinations of > models. > > So, what I'd like to do is to be able to add models dynamically to the > controller, depending on the incoming action. I wanted to just modify > the 'uses' array in the relevant actions, but this doesn't work (I > presume all that stuff is constructor handled). > > My questions are: > > 1. Is it possible to do this? > 2. Is this a stupid idea? > > Thanks for any tips, > Benjamin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
