IMO: You're creating a world of hurt for yourself by not having a
seperate table, model, conrtoller etc. for News, Events, Bookings as
they will all have their own fields and logic required. Stick to the
conventions, there are so many good reasons why they eist.
HTH, Paul
@phpMagpie
On Sep 2, 12:24 pm, Teddy Zeenny <teddyzee...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You can set: var $uses=array('ModelName') in each of the controllers.
>
> But just my opinion:
>
> Don't name the table "objects" because your model name would be Object which
> is a class that already exists in CakePHP.
>
> Second, why link multiple controllers to one model. Instead, link multiple
> models to one table. Then you would have EventsController which
> automatically links to Event model which uses table 'objects'. News
> automatically links to New Model which in turn uses 'objects' table.. etc
>
> Then in the Event model for example you could have:
>
> var $useTable='objects';
>
> function beforeFind($queryData)
> {
> return Set::merge($queryData ,
> array('conditions'=>array('Event.item_type'=>'event')));
>
> }
>
> I'm just brainstorming ... :) Just let me know what you think...
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Heshanh <hesh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have a table called 'objects' and each record has an item_type.
> > for example :
> > row 1:
> > id = 1
> > item_type = event
>
> > row 2:
> > id =2
> > item_type = news
>
> > row 3:
> > id =3
> > item_type = booking
>
> > I have a model for the table but is it possible to have multiple
> > controllers accessing this model,
> > I want to have an events controller that will handle all the events,
> > news controller that will handle all the news... and so on
>
> > is this possible for cakePhp?
>
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