There are two simple ways to handle shared views. One is to simply
specify the $this->view property within the handling methods.
The other is to redirect from one method to another, with a specific
flag. For instance, say you have a class Foo_controller with a view
rss($edition) method and you want it to be overloaded with data from
Bar_controller's rss($edition) method.
class Foo_controller ... {
...
function rss($edition)
{
$this->set('nodes', $this->Foo->getAllByEdition($edition);
$this->redirect('/bars/rss/0/1');
return;
}
} // end class
class Bar_controller ... {
...
function rss($edition, $from_foo = FALSE)
{
if (!$from_foo) $this->set('nodes', $this->Bar-
>getAllByEdition($edition); // if $from_foo, data was already
populated.
$this->set('foo_or_bar', $from_foo ? 'Foo' : 'Bar'); // so the view
will know what path to search for data inside nodes: $nodes[$i]
[$foo_or_bar']['id'] and so on.
}
} // end class
That way you always use the /bar/rss.thtml view, but its abstracted to
be called from either controller.
On Dec 21, 5:38 am, bingo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hi,
>
> I have a single RSS feed generator that can data from multiple
> controller and generate the RSS. Currently I have it as an element and
> for each controller class, I have a view that call this element to
> generate the RSS feed. For instance.
>
> I was wondering is there any way in cakePHP 1.2, that allows to share
> same view across multiple controllers so I don't need to duplicate the
> views that calls the RSS generator element. Something similar to $this-
>
> >render but which can take any view or file path.
>
> Looking at the core library, I realized there is an option to give a
> file path in render function but not sure whether it is meant for this
> only.
>
> Regards,
> Ritesh
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