John is right. Your view should only be concerned with how the data is presented, not how it is handled / manipulated. In the end, you should be able to completely swap out your views without having to adjust your controller at all. Follow the link John gave you and read up on it. It will save you a lot of time in the long run. Best of luck.
On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 9:23 PM, John <spil...@gmail.com> wrote: > You're not thinking > MVC<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%E2%80%93view%E2%80%93controller>. > If there's data that need to be taken into account through different > application states (like a click that triggers a controller method) then > the controller/model should manipulate it, not the view. If your reasoning > was valid, almost all data that ended up in the view should be handled in > the View, like if the user clicks on the logout link the view should do > parse it. > > > On Sunday, June 16, 2013 2:24:42 PM UTC+3, David Suna wrote: >> >> Thanks for your response. >> >> As I had no choice that is what I ended up doing. However, the >> information I was interested in storing was only relevant to the view (i.e. >> which menu was opened when the user clicked on a link) and only meant for >> use in the view (reopen the menu that was opened at the time the user >> clicked). It seems that I have now pushed knowledge of the view into the >> controller for an entirely arbitrary purpose. >> >> On Friday, June 14, 2013 11:08:57 PM UTC+3, John wrote: >>> >>> Your view is there to produce HTML not manipulate data (other than to >>> display them). The proper MVC way is to do it in the controller and just >>> pass the required data to the view to render it. >>> >> -- > Like Us on FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/CakePHP > Find us on Twitter http://twitter.com/CakePHP > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CakePHP" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Like Us on FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/CakePHP Find us on Twitter http://twitter.com/CakePHP --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
