> In my experience, specific problems that warrant breaking rules are a
> lot rarer than many think. Are you wanting your users to be able to
> edit the view files? if not, your controller calls the view files - it
> knows which view file it's going to use it should know which data it
> wants to receive; if so, why? and in any event I'd suggest designing
> towards the same answer ;).
You're absolutely right... I think sometimes I come across as arrogant
when I'm just trying to get a discussion going :)
> If you are still not convinced, what's the code in your controller
> method /templates/get_items_this_month/ ? specific discussions are
> more likely to give you specific answers.
The code in that function (get_items_this_month) just does a findAll
based on the function parameters. The problem was that I needed to
find a way of sending an array as a parameter. Like you said, I could
actually do that with requestAction but that would not be a great
solution.
The solution I've gone for now is to split the template up. So I've
got one THTML file (template_name.thtml) which contains some
iterations with html inside of them. I've also got a raw include file
(template_name.php) which gets included before rendering the template
file.
My include file basically builds a massive array with all the data I
need and then does:
$this->set('templateData', $templateData);
dardosordi: is this maybe what you had in mind?
I would have rather made the data file a component instead of an
include, but that gave me lots of problems with things like $this no
longer referring to the controller. Also I would have to hardcode the
array of components to include, which means that I would have to edit
the controller in order to add a template (I want to avoid this).
Enough of my ramblings. I think I've got something working fairly well
now, albeit not as elegant as it could be.
S
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