A question that I perhaps I should know the answer to, but I am not clear on the recommended approach - I am open to ideas.
I want to add a wizard process to an app. A wizard takes a user through a series of steps by visiting pages in sequence. Wizard availability and progress is managed in the session. The wizards are configurable with the definitions stored in tables (wizards, wizard_types and wizard_steps) - I have all the MVC goodness sorted for managing those. The wizard tables are not associated with any other tables. I want to make those wizards available to users. So first I need to grab the list of wizards from the Wizard model and store them in session. When a user chooses one, an element appears that gives them information about the wizard, shows the completed, current and next steps and takes them to a page. So I need to access the wizard data/models/controllers from other models/controllers that are not related to any others. Ideally this would be a plugin as it lays over other functionality that ought to be agnostic of it. I guess I could: 1) Make it a plugin - but I still have the same challenge - how do I call a plugin->controller function from another? 2) Do some clever plugin/component callback trickery that is beyond me. 3) Use loadModel - but then I don't have access to controller functions (for managing the session, for example) and need to stitch functions into core models. 4) User requestAction in elements - but that seems a bit hacky. In any case, I probably need something triggered in AppController->beforeFilter to check the wizard status and decide what to do next. So - pardon my ignorance - but I am really not sure the preferred way of doing this. What are your recommendations? -- 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.
