Databases are optional. Set $uses = array() in your controller, to prevent it from loading any of the model classes.
-Mark On Sep 24, 7:31 am, Erik Kristensen <erik.kristen...@gmail.com> wrote: > Good Morning Everyone! > > I am a long time user and I absolutely love CakePHP, however there is > one problem that I have run into lately that I think deserves some > attention, though I am sure there are those that will disagree with > me. > > For the most part most of the applications I have written have all had > databases and so it has never been a problem, however recently, I have > an pre-existing open source application that I am a developer on that > doesn't use a database, and I find that CakePHP doesn't exactly play > nice without a database. I found a few articles on the internet that > talk about creating a dummy dbo source, etc etc to get CakePHP to work > without a database, but I feel that a better solution might be > warrented. > > Why not add an option to the config.php file to disable database use? > Or at least add an option to make a database optional? > > Other frameworks handle this by just allowing to include the use of > models or to not include them. > > Now I am not suggesting we change to be like other frameworks, but > allow one to not use them and have the entire framework understand > that it doesn't need to expect a database connection I think only > makes sense, especially to open the doors to people that don't want to > use the framework because of the database requirements. > > I am big on UI in my applications, and I found that CakePHP View and > Theming capabilities dwarf those of other frameworks, IMHO, that is > one of the biggest reasons I want to use CakePHP for this project that > doesn't use a database (but might in the future, thats why being > optional would be nice) > > Thoughts on this? > -Erik --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
