Wondering if anyone cares to enlighten me about the proper cakePHP MVC theory for my project.
I have numerous authoritative books. Each book is stored in a separate database table with each paragraph in the book as a separate record. Like so. id int, bookname varchar chapternumber tinyint paragraphnumber tinyint paragraphtext text All thru the project I am required to display quoted paragraphs from these authoritative books, and would like to streamline as far a possible with a helper the calls. Something like: $this-CustomHelper->quoteText($id); To display a formatted paragraph in the view across the project. My confusion exists in exactly how to go about this in a proper way since each quoted paragraph involves a call to the database in a find. And I would like to use a number of helper functions to not only properly format and link the quoted paragraph text, but also supply a link to the entire chapter, chapter neighbors, and even the entire book. So since I am dealing with a call to the database does this logic belong in a behavior? A component? Or do I make the database call and all the formatting logic in a view helper? Or some combination of the above? Thanks for your time. -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
