The models are available in the controller..
$results = $this->ModelName-
>someFunctionYouWroteToGetSomDataBackFromTheDb();
unfortunately cake returns an array of results instead of an object..
so there no doing something like..
$results->sortBy('date ASC');
On Jan 7, 7:38 am, Deane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A couple days ago, I lamented that Find* didn't return an array of
> model objects. I posted about it here, and I was told that one of the
> reasons for this was that it would be "too tempting" to start
> inserting business logic in the views if you had objects available
> there.
>
> Fine. I'll concede that point for now.
>
> But what about the controllers? Shouldn't I be able to use models in
> the controllers? If I do a Find* in a controller to retrieve some
> data (that I have no intention of sending to the view) , shouldn't I
> get model objects back and be able to use methods on those objects?
>
> Controllers are where the business logic *should* live, so there
> doesn't seem to be much argument against using model objects there.
> Yet I still have nothing but these big arrays to deal with.
>
> How does everyone else manage this? Say you *need* to run some method
> on a model object in one of your controllers. What is the accepted
> way of doing this?
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