There are a number of ways to solve this. You can use inheritance, or
parameters, and setup routes for the parameters.
Venue1NewsController extends NewsController
or
NewsController::news($venueNumber,$moreParams)
I don't think copy+paste is the right solution though.
-Mark
On Jun 2, 9:40 pm, double07 <br...@bluenectar.com.au> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm working on a project at the moment which has a main site then sub
> sites for venue franchises. The venue sub sites are effectively the
> same as the main site but the news items etc are filtered to be only
> for that particular venue.
>
> The way I have this setup at the moment is as follows (I'll use news
> as an example):
> -Just a standard news model
> -a main controller for news news_controller.php
> -a sub controller for each venue i.e. venue1_news_controller.php -
> this is the same as the normal news controller except it has a
> condition to filter only news items for 'venue1'
> -normal news views
> -a venue1 sub folder in news containing slightly different views
> (mainly to add a hidden venue id field when adding news so when a
> venue1 editor can only add news for venue1) - accessed in the venue1
> news controller via changing the view path
> -Then I have routes setup ie: Router::connect('/venue1/news/:action/
> *', array('controller' => 'venue1_news'));
>
> Now this all works perfectly fine. However, what concerns me is the
> amount of times I'm effectively repeating things which are - bar a few
> small differences - doing essentially the same thing. Also, if I have
> to make changes to the news controller I effectively have to update
> each sub controller too.
>
> I'm just wondering if this is the best way to go about things? Is
> there a better way where I could have only one news controller/set of
> views but somehow add the conditions for the venues on the fly or
> something?
>
> Thanks.
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