On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 5:02 PM, David <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've got a component to do some common functions for a number of
> controllers. When I'm in those controllers, I can use globally-common
> functions from the app_controller. But when I'm in a component called
> by a controller, those functions from the app_controller aren't
> available. Isn't that sort of the point of the app_controller, and
> since a component is under a controller, shouldn't it be able to
> access? I don't quite understand why $this loses all its information
> once you roll into a component.
>
> Why is this the case (interested in the theory behind this part of the
> MVC), and is there a best practice way to access things from the
> app_controller in a component?
Components don't extend controllers. But the controller is passed to
the component's initialize() and startup() methods.
class FooComponent extends Object
{
private $__Controller;
function startup(&$controller)
{
$this->__Controller = $controller;
}
}
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