The essential Fat Models, Skinny Controllers: "Write big and long models, and short controllers"
DRY itself. Cheers, Martin B On Mar 9, 4:52 pm, sleepy1038 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I've recently implemented a content management system using Cake, and > am running into a design issue. I have many different types of posts > (articles, books, etc.). All these posts must be associated to tags. I > implemented a general posts table, and associated the tags to this. I > then implemented each type of post as belonging to a content post. > > The problem is, I now have many controllers. Each post type has its > own controller, although aside from differing fields they pretty much > have the same controller logic. The only thing that really differs in > each controller code is the name of the controller instance. Whenever > I need to make an update, I have to essentially copy and paste into 10 > different controllers. > > My questions is, how do I consolidate this logic into one location. I > thought about using a component, put b/c Cake uses lazy loading I > don't believe the model classes are available in a component. Am I > wrong about this? Is there a way around this? Also, is there any way > to consolidate the many views associated with the controllers? Any > help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thank You --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
