Hi guys! I'm pretty new to Cake PHP and what I find really hard, being used to develop PHP without following any rule or schema, is to get used to the MVC design.model. In this moment I'm creating stuff without any particular purpose in mind, but just to get confident with the framework and to build something I''ll be able to reuse later What I have in mind is pretty simple. I want a site where different kind of contents can be published: news, pics, videos, etc. I think each of them can be displayed in a different section of the site and so easily implemented through a controller (NewsController, VideosController, etc.), its model and a set of views to access standard operations: browse, add, edit and delete contents. Now I want to add a feature shared among all this controllers to let user add comments to a conent. All comments will have the sane info (username, date, text, etc.) and should be displayed and managed in the same way regardless of the section where they're posted. It sounds simple but I have no idea on how to design it following MVC principles.
Model I was thinking of having a unique table for all the comments and a set of associatives tables, one for each type of contents, to store association between a comment and a content item. Is not the best approach if we think about performance, so an alternative could be to have separate commments tables to speed up filtering. Anyway is not my first concern now. Controller I have two idea on how to implement the basic actions, but none of them looks right to me. The first is to have a comments controller class implementing the actions and then to create a set of subclasses, one for each type of contents, so I would have NewsCommentsController, VideosCommentsController, etc. In the subclasses I'd declare the right instance of the Model and call the superclass actions. The other idea is to have a component implementing the shared functionalities, but I've no idea if it's the right way to use a component and on how to do it. View I figure out I should have at least a view (or maybe an element?) to add a comment and one to show them, and that's all. A part from this what I can't understand well is how to put together all the pieces to obtain the final result. For instance having a main controller and its view, for example showing news, how can I add the action for posting/showing comments (that are in a different controller or component) and it's related view in the same page? U hope someone can give me some wise tips.And if someone is not clear, pleas ask me, I'm not a native english speaker and so I do lot of confusion some times. Thanks;) Andrea --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
