Hi Steve, I suppose you already read this section of the 'book'. If not, it may also be helpful:
http://book.cakephp.org/view/94/views#elements-97 On Jun 17, 2:54 pm, steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Daniel - I did think of that, but ideally I'd like to be able > to make a self-contained module out of the box that could be dropped > anywhere if need be. Is the problem with requestAction that it has to > traverse back up the tree to get to the data it needs, leading to > slower load times/stress on the system/etc? > > On Jun 17, 1:31 am, Daniel Hofstetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Steve, > > > > I am brand new to Cake and am trying to figure out what probably is a > > > very simple problem. I have a News and Events page which has a model > > > and controller spitting out all the news from the database, but I also > > > have a separate static page stored in the pages directory that has > > > mostly static content but a dynamic News and Events callout box that > > > lists the 3 latest news items. It seems silly to create another model/ > > > controller for this mostly static view just to get info that could be > > > pulled directly from the News and Events model, but I'm struggling on > > > how to do this. I've been reading on requestAction but have also heard > > > people saying that was a poor way of accomplishing what I want to > > > accomplish. As I'd like to learn the correct way to do it from the > > > outset, any ideas would be greatly appreciated, thanks. > > > An idea is to add an additional method to your controller (which also > > means the view has to be moved away from the pages directory). > > > Hope that's enough to get you started ;-) > > > -- > > Daniel Hofstetterhttp://cakebaker.42dh.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
