If the data you want is feeds from all of these models, then I think
you'd be best off creating a FeedsController and adding the models to
its $uses array.

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 4:22 AM, Knut <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I don't manage to find information about my case. Maybe I just don't
> know exactly what I want. But I'll try to explain:
>
> I have about 5 different models like GuestbookEntry, News,
> NewsComment, PhotoCollection, PhotoComment and further on. Most of
> them have no associations with each other. I want to merge all these
> into one big feed on my frontpage. Almost like Facebook does on their
> frontpage.
>
> It doesn’t seem like CakePHP have any built-in solution for this, and
> honestly I’m not shure how it should be done anyway. My suggestion is
> to create a big SQL-query with selects for all the tables separated
> with UNION ALL. The pagination would also be easy to manage then.
>
> Anyway I don’t know how to do this in a CakePHPish way. I’ve
> provisionally solved this with a method of the feed_controller (!)
> which queries the database. I think this bit of logic should be placed
> in the model, but my attempts always ends with something tricky and
> ugly…
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thank you!
>
>
> >
>

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