Being released 1.2 final version of CakePHP, I opened this discussion
to try to bring some light together to this issue.
My need:
What's in the subject of this discussion; I have a couple of "special"
controllers to be called from flash (through cakeswxphp). What I need
is those controllers extending a "RemotingController" (with it's set
of thingies for communication with flash) which in turn extends
AppController. Sounded easy when I thought it, it's a common practice
in OOP and I cannot see why it wouldn't be implemented in an OOP
framework as CakePHP. Let's see:
1) class RemotingController extends AppController {} // dir: app/ or
app/controllers/
2) class RemotingUsersController extends RemotingController {} //
dir: app/controllers/
When I make a request to an action in RemotingUsersController, "Class
'RemotingController' not found", either putting it at app/ or app/
controllers/. Ok, CakePHP didn't noticed RemotingController class
existed.
There are a couple of (old or even antique) discussions on the
subject:
http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php/browse_thread/thread/83bad7a3498001c7
(from 2005)
and a more recent one:
http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php/browse_thread/thread/f3c62f08147fcfe9/
(from mid 2007)
Neither seemed to found a (nice?) way to do this and according to
dates, they were discussing on different stages in the evolution of
the framework.
I applied something said in the first one, suggesting the following:
require_once('parent_controller.php');
class ChildController extends ParentController {}
The requirement for the php file with my RemotingController class
would work fine (though not being a pretty/frameworkian solution, but
I can live with that). Now my class seems to be recognized by Cake but
I have another problem: The components I declare for this class don't
work ("Call to a member function requestedWith() on a non-object", for
example). Seems that leaving a little bit the CakePHP "rigorous-
mechanics/convention-over-configuration" of Cake, there are some
things that stop working "automagically", such as automatic components
initialization.
My questions:
How, then, can I initialize components? (and maybe why there's nothing
in the book on this subject?)
What can be the most practical and conventional way of doing what I
need?
Are others there that achieved good results with this?
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