Create a function in your controller that firstly creates the connection object. Then have the function get the data from the model, which returns an array to the controller and is stored in a variable in the controller. Now parse that array running your controller/component function against your connection object.
Jeremy Burns Class Outfit [email protected] http://www.classoutfit.com On 4 Feb 2011, at 07:06, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On Feb 3, 2011, at 23:36, Sam Sherlock wrote: > >> On Feb 3, 2011, at 23:22, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >>> It's still unclear to me what the best way is to, for example, define >>> additional variables that go with a particular record. My first impulse was >>> to define an instance variable in the Model, but in light of the above, >>> that doesn't seem correct. >> >> @ryan - the right thing takes some working out >> >> A user >> name (full and secondname -- 2 fields) >> username to login >> hasMany published recipe's (table) >> hasMany favorite recipe's () >> >> A recipee will have >> One title (which is made into a slug) >> One slug (an auto field) >> hasMany->ingredients (table) >> belongs to user > > I understand that much; I'm not having any troubles defining columns in my > database tables. What I am having trouble with is where to store variables > that relate to their rows. > > For example, perhaps I have a table of hostnames and a Hostname model. I have > a method that will find() some subset of them. Then I would like to connect > to each of them using some network protocol. There is an object (not a model; > just a PHP class loaded from the libs directory) that represents that > connection. Where should I be storing that object? There will be multiple > operations performed over that single connection once it's opened, so I would > dislike to have to create the network connection anew in each method; that > would be inefficient and wasteful of network resources. It shouldn't be the > responsibility of a controller or a shell script to create this connection > object; it's directly related to the Hostname model so it should be in that > model. If the model were an object representing a hostname instance, then I > might have had a private $_connection instance variable, and a public method > getConnection(), which creates $this->_connection if it hasn't already been > created (i.e. instantiates the connection object, which opens the network > connection) and returns it. But since the model is merely a way to get an > array of data, I'm unsure what technique I should be using. > > > > -- > 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 -- 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
