I don't see the problem with using elements, that's exactly what they
were made for.
Layouts: outer wrapper, same for all pages (or very few different
variations)
Views: the actual "page", usually one per action
Elements: re-usable pieces of a view that are the same on many pages
You can put the elements in sub-directories if you don't want them to
clutter up one directory. A renderAction() is overkill here.
On 17 Oct 2008, at 12:05, Stan wrote:
>
> From what I could gather in other posts, it seem like the right way to
> do this is through requestAction, although there are a few things
> which don't seem right. Let me very briefly explain my setup which
> should be fairly common.
>
> I have 2 tables, customers, and inquiries. Customers hasMany
> inquiries. I baked a project/models/views for these, and customers/
> view will show me my customer info, along with all inquiries belonging
> to the customer.
>
> In customers/view.ctp, there is some code to render an inquiry. Also,
> inquiries/view.ctp has the same code to render an inquiry. My first
> thought was -- I don't want the same code in two places... I want to
> define how an inquiry should be rendered in inquiry/view.ctp, and then
> use that in customers/view.ctp. Also, I might want to have a couple of
> different views of an inquiry -- maybe a view_full.ctp,
> view_summary.ctp, view_oneline.ctp...
>
> There are a couple of options that I could find:
>
> I can use renderAction ("/inquiries/view_expanded/$id",
> array('return')) and get what I want... but, that causes a whole new
> page request, and the inquiry data which was already available to the
> customer view has to be retrieved again.
>
> I can use an element, and pass the inquiry data to it. Sounds great,
> except now I have to create a different element for each inquiry view
> I want to include in various pages -- inquiry_expanded.ctp,
> inquiry_summary.ctp, inquiry_online.ctp, etc. Soon, I'm going to have
> a few elements for each model and that's not what elements are
> supposed to be for -- that's exactly why there are views.
>
> What is the proper "cake-way" of doing this?
>
> >
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