Use elements cache :)
http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/creating-reusable-elements-with-requestaction
On Apr 6, 12:06 pm, Walther <waltherl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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