it is a very neat thing to have access to the session inside the model check out Miles' approach he uses it in his forum plugin: http://milesj.me/resources/script/forum-plugin
On 28 Mrz., 08:00, cricket <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 12:54 AM, Krissy Masters > > > > > > > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Why is the Session data not available in the Model? > > Why is it breaking MVC? > > I do not understand since all data comes from the database basically and if > > I am saving my session data to the db why would grabbing that data in the > > model be bad? > > > I found Miles J snip for the app_model which I plan to use to get session > > data since it makes more sense to grab user.id from the session directly in > > the model rather than grab it in controller only to pass it to the model in > > the controller function to be used in the model function. > > > public function __construct($id = false, $table = null, $ds = null) { > > parent::__construct($id, $table, $ds); > > > $this->Session = new CakeSession(); > > } > > > Any insight on how this breaks MVC? > > The request shoud be irrelevant to the model. That's for the > controller to deal with. If you have model methods which are dependent > on request data (which, essentially, is what session vars are) just > pass them to your model methods from the controller. > > If you've got a lot of params to send, consider using an associative > array, the way most everything else in Cake works. -- 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
