I think it depends whether you store this value in the database or
not.
If you do, the right thing is to create a table and then accessing it
by a model. For a very good reason, in big projects you don't want to
lose time thinking "is it a table or a array within a controller? in
which controller is it?".
Also, if this value is used in the database, later you may want to
write a single query to retrieve this data, and run this query on the
console (or a backup script, e.g.) and suddenly you realized that that
tied you to cakephp.
If you think that's the best solution (to keep this data as an array),
the ideal solution (in my mind) would be to have a Model which access
this array instead of a database table. If you only need it for drop
boxes, maybe this:
app/models/gender.php
class Gender // extends nothing
{
var $data = array( 'M' => 'Male', 'F' => 'Female' );
function find($type,$opt=null)
{
if ( $type='list' ) return $data;
throw new exception(" find('$type') in bogus model isn't supported
- maybe it's time to use a real table." );
}
}
I know, it's ugly, but what's the upside of all this coding? All data
in accessible by models, and you didn't wrote a lot of database tables
that will never change.
I would love proper support of "virtual" models that access data on a
CSV, static array, etc.
dfcp
On 18 maio, 15:46, Jason Mitchell <jason.a.mitch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have in a controller an array containing data used on the view to populate
> a drop down. I put it on the controller, so the array could be used by
> multiple views associated with that controller (create, edit). Additionally,
> it means that if I do ever have to change it, I just have to change it once
> (yup, lazy).
>
> Because the data is relatively static, and is used in only isolated
> instances, it didn't seem to be worth the effort of creating a model for
> that data, and establishing a relationship between models. And, putting it
> on the controller, worked.
>
> Admittedly, I'm new to MVC, but this really doesn't seem to jive definition.
> Am I doing something wrong? If so, how would one but this on the model,
> short of some sort of association with another model?
>
> --
> J. Mitchell
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