Background: i am trying to build a little database-driven 2-level menu system that checks authorization to access menu pages and actions *before* they are displayed. If you are not authorized to use the "budgets" table in any way, you won't be presented with a "budgets" menus option (I am using Authake for the auth function)
To stick with MVC convention, I figured I should put as much of the DB access and auth in my "menus" controller. I would use find() with some complex conditions to extract only the set of menus that I wanted a user to get. I had problems with my conditions in find() and I concluded I didn't understand it well enough -- maybe a fundamental misunderstanding about variable scope and what could be sent in to a query via find(). So I backed up and added echo "<pre>"; print_r($this->viewVars);echo "</pre>";?> to my default.ctp so I could see what vars were being set in my controller: I am using routes and using URL comparison to select menu records from the database. I can set this in the controller: $this->set('current_uri', $_SERVER[REQUEST_URI]); The idea is to use URL to set parent menu and then query all parent +child menu records. But when I went to use $current_uri it in a find(all, [conditions]) the find simply failed So I did another test. I can set: $this->set('menu_link', "/budgets" ); but when I subsequently try to do this set in the next line in the controller: $this->set('menu_name', $menu_link ); I see menu_name in viewVars, but it has no value. I get the same no- value result if I use: $this->set('menu_name', $this->menu_link ); All this tells me that there is something really basic this perpetual n00b doesn't understand about scope of vars in viewVars and/or how they can be compared or set in the controller. Any thumps with the clue stick appreciated. Jim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---