You need to place the loadmodel within a method - such as beforeFilter.
Also you will benefit from learning how php classes work.
- S
On 20 Jan 2012 17:51, "Dave D" <its.dave.daw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The loadmodel line is the one that gets the error. I copied and
> pasted the AppController.php directly from the sample placeholder
> class, so I get:
>
> <?php
> App::uses('Controller', 'Controller');
>
> class AppController extends Controller {
> $this->loadModel('Sitelist');
> }
>
> And then there's the licence part at the top and the "This is a
> placeholder class" stuff in the middle, after App::uses(...). When I
> get rid of the "$this->loadModel(...); line, it works, but that's the
> default file because the only line I added was the loadModel line.
>
> The menu is a very simple list. In my template right now, I have the
> list in a div like so:
>
> <div id="sitenavigation">
> <ul>
> <li class="menuitem"><a href="link1here">Link 1 name</a></li>
> <li class="menuitem"><a href="link2here">Link 2 name</a></li>
> ...
> </ul>
> </div>
>
> My database just has a table that has the sitelist id, the name for
> the link, and one more column for the link itself.
>
> I'd just like to be able to have the links get generated from the
> database, where the href contents and the name part is taken from that
> table.
>
> As a side note, is there any good component reference information for
> 2.0.5? The stuff from the cookbook about creating components (http://
> book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/controllers/components.html) is a whopping 4
> lines long. The part from the 1.3 book (http://book.cakephp.org/1.3/
> view/996/Creating-Components) has a section on calling models from
> components, but I'm too new at Cake to know if that would work, and it
> says it's "not generally recommended".
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> On Jan 20, 12:12 pm, Sam Sherlock <sam.sherl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is the load model call the line with the error?
> >
> > Can you post more code?
> >
> > The component idea should be fine.
> >
> > More details of your bab/menu model would be good.
> >
> > - S
> > On 20 Jan 2012 16:13, "Dave D" <its.dave.daw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I'm looking to create a site where I can have a navigation list on one
> > > side of each page where the list of links is taken from a database
> > > table.
> >
> > > I can create the list of links just fine in the layout, but I'm suck
> > > looking at how I might be able to get the list out from the database.
> > > I've been looking around the internet to see how I might be able to
> > > work it in, but I haven't been able to find anything that would work
> > > for sure, so I was thinking I should get some input from this group
> > > before I continue.
> >
> > > The first idea I saw was to include the model in the AppController,
> > > but I can't get that to work in the slightest. I tried putting this
> > > in my AppController:
> >
> > > $this->loadModel('Sitelist');
> >
> > > Which breaks everything, giving me the error: "Parse error: syntax
> > > error, unexpected T_VARIABLE, expecting T_FUNCTION in /path/to/cake/
> > > app/Controller/AppController.php on line 36 ".
> >
> > > I already created a "Sitelist" model, controller and view with basic
> > > CRUD and I'm able to edit everything fine through another page.
> >
> > > I've also seen the suggestion to create a component that gets included
> > > in all of the controllers which queries the database to get the list,
> > > which then gets used by the layout, but I haven't found anything about
> > > that written after version 1.2.
> >
> > > I'm working with CakePHP 2.0.5. If anybody knows what the proper way
> > > to get a list like this populated, please let me know.
> >
> > > Thanks!
> >
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