Importing Controllers inside of other controllers is bad mojo. There
are numerous functions that are used to make a controller work outside
of __construct(). You should look at perhaps moving the code you need
to reuse into your models. Google 'thin controller fat model' or you
can use requestAction(). Both are far better options and not nearly as
hacky in my opinion.
-Mark
On Oct 10, 1:46 am, benko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey Guys,
>
> I have a system with products and categories.
>
> In the CategoriesController there is a method breadcrumb($id) that
> makes use of the Category model via
>
> $this->Category->read();
>
> In my ProductsController i'd also like to have access to the the
> breadcrumb($id) so I have used the code:
>
> App::import('Controller', 'Categories');
> $categories = new CategoriesController();
>
> This works fine but the issue arises when I try to run:
>
> $categories->breadcrumb($id);
>
> I receive an error of: Fatal error: Call to undefined method
> stdClass::read() . Which seems to be flagging because the Category
> model is not defined?
>
> I can work around it by creating an element or using requestAction or
> even checking for the existence of the model inside the controller
> with something like:
>
> if (!empty($this->Category))
> {
> App::import('Model', 'Category');
>
> }
>
> But these all seem very hacky and id have to repeat the process for
> every function I want to use. Is there an elegant way around this
> problem?
>
> Thanks for reading :)
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