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! > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
