That would be true, if data was meant to be displayed to the user. If you are writing data to a file, cache or different data source, it can be handled at the model layer.
On Nov 10, 1:11 pm, Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the MVC paradigm, data all goes through all three, and while you > can write the code to output the iCal directly from the Model, it > really isn't following MVC. > > The model simply abstracts the data from the database. Your controller > then does the "business logic", in this case making sure you have the > right bits of data, then the view would output your iCal. > > You might want to google outputting data from a view, I saw a post not > too long ago about doing that. Basically you need to add some logic to > tell the view it's is going to output a different type than HTML > (along with mime type and file name if you're sending it across the > web). > > On Nov 10, 9:05 am, fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I am new to CakePHP and MVC. I have created models to access a MySQL > > database. Perfect. Now I need to export some date in an iCal file > > format. I was wondering where to place that code in order to respect > > the MVC paradigm : in a controller or in a model? > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
