I believe I've found a solution.
For each possible item that can be added to the homepage I store the
name of the controller that is called. By simply changing this to the
model name and using App::Import in the homepage model (Where I fetch
the items from the database) I have gotten rid of the requestActions.
Seems to be working quite well.
>From those who are more experienced at Cake, is this a better way of
doing it?
On Apr 6, 10:51 am, Walther <waltherl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> In an app that I am currently developing I wish to give the
> administrator the ability to customise the home page of the app by
> being able to include various other things into the home page (For
> example, the admin may wish to show a welcome message which uses the
> pages controller, and they may wish to show a calendar using the
> calendars controller and an unlimited number of other views).
>
> What I am currently doing is on the homepage view I do a loop through
> the homepages table and call the homepages.ctp element and sends it
> the relevant data for the view that needs to be displayed. The
> homepage element then calls the relevant element for whatever
> controller the admin has chosen, this controller may be part of a
> plugin.
>
> The homepages.ctp element looks as follows:
> <?php
> if ($item['MenuLink']['plugin_id'] == 0)
> {
> $View =& ClassRegistry::getObject('view');
> echo $View->element('homepages/' . $item['MenuLink']['controller'],
> array('item' => $item));}
>
> else
> {
> $View =& ClassRegistry::getObject('view');
> echo $View->element('homepages/' . $item['MenuLink']['controller'],
> array('item' => $item, 'plugin' => $item['MenuLink']['Plugin']
> ['directory']));}
>
> ?>
>
> As an example the homepages/pages.ctp element looks as follows:
> <?php $pageToShow = $this->requestAction('/pages/index/' . $item
> ['Homepage']['options']); ?>
> <?php if (isset($pageToShow)) : ?>
> <div>
> <div id="dataInfo">
> Created: <span class="timeago" title="<?php echo
> $pageToShow['Page']
> ['created']; ?>"><?php echo $date->prettyDate($pageToShow['Page']
> ['created']); ?></span><br />
> Modified: <span class="timeago" title="<?php echo
> $pageToShow
> ['Page']['modified']; ?>"><?php echo $date->prettyDate($pageToShow
> ['Page']['modified']); ?></span><br />
> Tags: <?php echo $pageToShow['Page']['tags']; ?>
> </div>
>
> <h1 id="nice_name"><?php echo $pageToShow['Page']['title'];
> ?></h1>
> <div id="content" style="margin-top:10px; text-align:left;">
> <?php
> echo $pageToShow['Page']['text'];
> ?>
> </div>
> </div>
> <?php else : ?>
> No page
> <?php endif; ?>
>
> It is working well. However, I realise that requestAction is quite
> intensive as it acts like another server request, is there some other
> method that I can use that will achieve the same outcome but use less
> server resources?
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