I'd say that you should put most of your logic in the controller
method that the requestAction() is calling. From there, use
$this->set('some_variable', $some_value) and then lay out your HTML in
the view.
But, without knowing the details of your situation, it's difficult to say.
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 6:12 PM, Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi Baz, b,
>
> Thanks for your responses. I like the idea of using Cake's caching
> framework - a cache is a more appropriate place to store the generated
> data, rather than pushing it back to the database every time.
>
> I'm still slightly confused about the logical place to put the code
> which actually generates the HTML. The function itself is about 130
> lines long, and does things like generate images for labels which need
> to be vertical; it seems like that would be too heavy to go into the
> View. But then again, it is strictly creating a visual interpretation
> of the data from the model, which is the very definition of what a
> view is supposed to do.
>
> I guess at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter. But I would
> be intrigued to hear the wiser words of someone more seasoned in the
> MVC paradigm.
>
> Thanks again,
> Matt.
>
>
>
>
> On Apr 1, 12:19 pm, "b logica" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'll second that. It really seems that Cake could take care of this for
> you.
> >
> > Create a view with:
> >
> > <?= $this->element('your_controller/some_method', array('cache'=>'1 day'))
> ?>
> >
> > Put all of your other params in the array as well and they'll be
> > available in the view, from where you can pass them through a
> > requestAction() to your controller.
> >
> > In the controller:
> >
> > function afterSave()
> > {
> > clearCache('element_cache_your_controller_some_method', 'views',
> '');
> >
> > }
> >
> > Or put the clearCache() wherever it makes the most sense for your
> situation.
> >
> > b
> >
>
> > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Baz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Not sure this will help, but here goes:
> >
> > > What my Cake experience has shown me is that, there was a lot of stuff
> that
> > > I used to do "manually" that is now made obsolete by CakePHP. I've
> wasted a
> > > lot of trying to to port legacy code into my Cake projects, that I later
> > > realized that I didn't need.
> >
> > > Off the top of my head, CakePHP has some caching features. These may make
> > > your database HTML snippet caching more trouble than it's worth. You
> could
> > > cache your "snippet" as an element and include it like that, and you
> could
> > > simply clearCache() for that elemet "when your parameters change".
> >
> > > Hope this helps....
> >
>
> > > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > > Hi all,
> >
> > > > My application accepts a fairly large collection of parameters and
> > > > uses them to generate an HTML snippet. The snippet is generated
> > > > lazily, so that the parameters can change frequently but the HTML is
> > > > only generated when it's needed. Once generated, the HTML is cached
> > > > (in the database) until the parameters change again.
> >
> > > > I'm new to MVC, and not sure where thebestplace to put the HTML
>
>
> > > > generation code is. I would guess that the Model is thebestlogical
> > > > place for it, since it will be updating a model reference with the
> > > > generated HTML. What makes me wonder though, is that the generation
> > > > code actually references other models (because the parameters can be
> > > > logically separated).
> >
> > > > Would the Controller be a better place for this code, or should I
> > > > leave it in the Model? If so, how do you access other models from
> > > > within a Model class?
> >
> > > > Many thanks,
> > > > Matt.
> >
>
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