a little help please?

On Sep 17, 8:05 pm, lorenx <[email protected]> wrote:
> hi all,
> i'm new to cakephp and, mentioning the blog tutorial, i have some
> simple questions.
>
> 1.
> in the sample controller, there is the view action:
>
> function view($id = null) {
>         $this->Post->id = $id;
>         $this->set('post', $this->Post->read());
>
> }
>
> to better understand, i did some tests.
> i tried to comment out the passed parameter $id and the $this->Post->id=$id 
> assignment... and the code seems to work as before.
>
> i also printed_r the Post object, before and after that line, but no
> change appeared.
> so... what exactly do the assignment? and passing the $_GET parameter
> is necessary?
>
> 2.
> does every function in the controller involve the creation of a
> method, of an action?
>
> 3.
> in the edit action, there is the $this->data variable.
> i presume that this variable is going to populate the edit form. how
> is this handled?
>
> thanks to all!
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