You can create CommentComponent. All comments in one table: Id, ModelName,ModelId, name, email, message...
In every controller use component with different setup, (pass Model name and Id). Every model HasMany Comment with criteria=>ModelName=News. Component can catch POST data and save comment, list all commment etc. You need only one comment element to call from News view or Video view. On Jan 19, 10:11 pm, Mirthis <mirt...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi guys! > I'm pretty new to Cake PHP and what I find really hard, being used to > develop PHP without following any rule or schema, is to get used to > the MVC design.model. In this moment I'm creating stuff without any > particular purpose in mind, but just to get confident with the > framework and to build something I''ll be able to reuse later > What I have in mind is pretty simple. I want a site where different > kind of contents can be published: news, pics, videos, etc. I think > each of them can be displayed in a different section of the site and > so easily implemented through a controller (NewsController, > VideosController, etc.), its model and a set of views to access > standard operations: browse, add, edit and delete contents. > Now I want to add a feature shared among all this controllers to let > user add comments to a conent. All comments will have the sane info > (username, date, text, etc.) and should be displayed and managed in > the same way regardless of the section where they're posted. It sounds > simple but I have no idea on how to design it following MVC > principles. > > Model > I was thinking of having a unique table for all the comments and a set > of associatives tables, one for each type of contents, to store > association between a comment and a content item. Is not the best > approach if we think about performance, so an alternative could be to > have separate commments tables to speed up filtering. Anyway is not my > first concern now. > > Controller > I have two idea on how to implement the basic actions, but none of > them looks right to me. The first is to have a comments controller > class implementing the actions and then to create a set of subclasses, > one for each type of contents, so I would have NewsCommentsController, > VideosCommentsController, etc. In the subclasses I'd declare the right > instance of the Model and call the superclass actions. The other idea > is to have a component implementing the shared functionalities, but > I've no idea if it's the right way to use a component and on how to do > it. > > View > I figure out I should have at least a view (or maybe an element?) to > add a comment and one to show them, and that's all. > > A part from this what I can't understand well is how to put together > all the pieces to obtain the final result. For instance having a main > controller and its view, for example showing news, how can I add the > action for posting/showing comments (that are in a different > controller or component) and it's related view in the same page? > U hope someone can give me some wise tips.And if someone is not clear, > pleas ask me, I'm not a native english speaker and so I do lot of > confusion some times. > Thanks;) > > Andrea --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
