I have thought of all of this before and none of these solutions quite seems to solve my problem.
I need to be able to recover the id for the category entry in order to reference various related models to generate the content. The number of parameters in the url needs to be dynamic and must control a mysql self join. The results of this self join need to populate the category model. I can not pass the id into the controller in this case. I also can't use a findall or findallbyname since the names of a category might not be unique. I need to be able to handle an url like the following examples. All of them. domain.ext/categories/books/ domain.ext/categories/books/programming domain.ext/categories/programming/ domain.ext/categories/software/ domain.ext/categories/software/product/ domain.ext/categories/software/product/downloads domain.ext/categories/software/product/reviews where the parameters passed to the categories controller will determine what else happens. I can control the rest but I can't seem to get around populating the category model with the information it needs. I can get the param count and construct the query manually - is there a trick to approaching this problem from such an angle? Am I missing something entirely. I cant split the controllers up. I need this to work from a single categories_controller and I need to get the id of the category from the nested url in a single query if at all possible. A self join will do this. I can manage the sql generation easily enough. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
