Hi, i'm a Python developer, and have worked on small PHP projects. A few months ago i've started looking at the MVC model, and have used CakePHP for some simple database applications (AddressBook and a stupid "crawler").
Now i'm working to an application that uses both Facebook, Youtube and Bit.ly APIs. I've read your documentation about the "vendors" directory, but am still confused, so i'm asking for help in this mailing list. I'll really appreciate any type of help. Thanks. Now let me explain: In my old application I have the bit.ly library that has 2 main functions: just_shorten_url and shorten_url. The first function creates a short URL and saves it in the db (with an indipendent mysql connection) and the first one just creates and print a short url, given the long one. In that application i simply include_once the library file and then use that functions. With cakephp, if i'm right, using just_shorten_url is not so difficult: just create a view with the form where you can insert the long one and a controller where, with my library, the short url gets created. Now, what about printing the created url to the user's screen? I know I can create a new view where the controller will POST data to display, but maybe there is a cleaner way to do this (direct output from the controller?). Can you help me? Using shorten_url (the function that also writes to the db) is more difficult: yes, of course i can use it as just_shorten_url and work on the database "manually" (the library creates a connection and executes queries), but, as i'm using such a powerful framework, why not to use it also here? I think the best way to do that is completely remove database connections and queries from my library and put everything in the controller. The controller gets the long url, with shorten_url creates a short one then puts it into the DB. Well, at this point there is the last problem. At this point i will have 2 controllers: one, that creates and output a short url and another one, that creates a short url, output it and adds it to the DB. So i have almost the same code 2 times in my app. How can i make controllers interacting between them? I mean: a controller that creates and output the short url that, if needed saves it on the db. Thanks so much. Giorgio Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://cakeqs.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. 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
