Maybe I read it wrong back in the day but something idles in my head about requestAction being bad. Is this true or still in effect? I am using 1.3.7 and I think I remember reading back in 1.2 its better to not use that function.
“If used without caching requestAction can lead to poor performance. It is rarely appropriate to use in a controller or model.” I have 1 element on 3 pages where I simply need to grab 4 fields from a db for the element. The element is loaded originally on the first page left side navigation column, and links load content into the main column so the element is never refreshed since its on the side nav column except if someone “open in new tab / window” on the link so the element has no data because its originally loaded on the main page. So rather than build that data call into each of those 3 pages I figured request would be the best option. My Picasso below :) Side Col | Main Col ___________________________________________________________________ | nav => loads into main | content gets loaded here via ajax |------------------------------------------------------------------| | | element | | ____________________________________________________________________ Just looking for some input on the matter. Thanks, K -- 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
