Brian, Thanks for the reality/sanity check before I launch into this. I appreciate it. I am keeping a text file "To-Do" list of all of the decisions I need to make and CakePHP features that I have to figure out!
Jim On Apr 28, 6:05 pm, brian <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 7:35 PM, geste <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Brian, > > > Personally, I'll take your response to mean "I'm not out of my > > mind". > > I'm not sure what you mean but I don't think either of us are out of > their mind. :-) > > > Yes, time to leave scaffolding behind, but there were some helpful > > (and not always helpful) defaults like "show name value for FK id". > > For sure. Scaffolding is a big head start. But it can only provide a > basic view and should be considered as a starting point. Not many > people are going to want to display the model's ID, for instance. Or > list paginated results in a table. > > > Like you say, I don't want to add more data for no good reason. I had > > some vague notion of a helper that would return "name-for-id" or some > > other way of reformatting FK IDs in a way that would be inheritable. > > But if there's no fault to find with just editing baked views to show > > view vars, then I will go with that. Just figured I'd aske before I > > go back and rebake 35 unscaffolded views! > > I think a helper for that would be a bit tricky and probably not worth > the effort. You'd have to pass it the name of the associated model and > the field name as well, for instance. Like I said, this sort of thing > would be best in afterFind() if it's done at all. That way, it can be > tailored to a specific model. > > But, personally, I think simply using the associated array is much > more straightforward. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
