requestAction() is a bit seductive. It can look like a simple solution to a lot of things but the problem (that you notice later on) is that is has a high "cost" in the processing overhead and in that you don't improve your design instead of using the "quick fix".
When requestAction() is called you are effectively making a new request more or less as you would by refreshing the browser. You are starting up the router and dispatcher again. You are instantiating a new controller, loading new Models, querying the database. And, worst of all as I understand it, you are often doing a full render of an extra View. All this results in a very costly feature. There are times when requestAction is a good tool (the only tool?) but they are quite few. But without knowing your application I can't say if you have a justified situation or not. I always feel dutifully ashamed each time i use this feature which forces me to think if I can't get around my problem some other way :) In my current project I actually have a few but in those cases doing without it is too complicated for my taste and in only one instance is the processing overhead an issue. /Martin On Jan 15, 3:05 pm, "Mario Cesar" <[email protected]> wrote: > teknoid, why is a bad idea ??? > > --- p.s. It is almost always a bad idea to use requestAction() ;) > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:29 PM, teknoid <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Any params can be passed like: /controller/action/param1/param2/param3 > > Or as named params: /controller/action/name:bob/city:paris/ > > account:active > > > to see the params in your controller pr($this->params) > > > p.s. It is almost always a bad idea to use requestAction() ;) > > > On Jan 14, 9:55 am, Mario Cesar <[email protected]> wrote: > > > hi! > > > i have parameters with / ex '2008/2,' '2008/1' > > > but the cake read only 2008 > > > how can i pass the /??? > > > > i'm using > > > $turma = 'qqq/w'; > > > $this->requestAction("/turmasDisciplinasHorarios/getDisciplinaTurma/ > > > $turma/$filial/$disciplina"); > > > > someone can help me? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
