<rant> In the end, I canned all the frameworks. And built my own.
They are just so, so, so overkill. IMHO. But I digress, and I am not helping you at all. But there is a big Cake user group off the main site, probably a quick answer there. MVC sounds SO great in academic circles, but in the end, sometimes you have to break the rules. The M is cool, the C is cool. But the V is where you can break it out. I call that the P, for Presentation Layer. Is php really a good candidate for MVC? Sometime I'm not 100% sold on that idea. But that does not diminish at all what you can do with it. Actually it may make it much more versatile ---- because you can break the rules. </rant> :-) On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Bruce Martin <bmar...@mac.com> wrote: > Hi all, > I am assuming there are people on the list who are knowledgeable about > cakePHP on this list. I'm still trying to wrap my head around it and so far > I'm finding it a bit tricky. I'm currently reading a book about cakePHP, but > nee to skip through to resolve the world hunger crisis before I know how to > grow corn. > > The situation: > I have a > model/controller/views(item.php/items_controller.php/view->admin_index.ctp > and admin_add.ctp) that display items from a Mysql database. This works just > as cakePHP wants, the table is designed with cakePHP in mind and the records > are displayed in a table or a single record can be passed to a form for > editing. I did not write this code, so maybe my issues are in understanding > the code rather than cakePHP. > > I need, or want, to create a view that will list records from a non-cakePHP > compliant database/table, Informix, in an HTML table that when the user > clicks a link, will pre-populate the admin_add.ctp views form. > > I thought I could simply add my code to access this second database in the > item.php model, and then call it via the controller, items_controller.php > and send it to another view admin_select.ctp. However, I cannot get my > function I wrote in the model to substitute the original table results with > new results from the second database. > > Am I going about this incorrectly? if so, how would you suggest doing this? > The intent is to simply import data from the Informix database into the > mysql database when the admin wants to add an item. > > Thanks, > > Bruce Martin > The Martin solutionbr...@martinsolution.comhttp://www.martinsolution.com > > > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation > -- IM/iChat: ejpusa Links: http://del.icio.us/ejpusa Follow me: http://www.twitter.com/ejpusa Karma: http://www.coderswithconscience.com
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