Okay thanks! This question was an introduction to another one : When you do this, aren't you consuming too much ressources? I believe not but just in case, because ressources can become quickly a bottleneck in a site with a lot of visitors so I4would like to know the best practices in that case (and as from now, I think this one is the best one)
On Feb 23, 9:30 am, Jeremy Burns | Class Outfit <jeremybu...@classoutfit.com> wrote: > Don't worry too much about the hows and whys. If your models are associated > in any way you can reach a distantly related model to run any model method as > described earlier. It's a very useful and powerful facility. > > Jeremy Burns > Class Outfit > > jeremybu...@classoutfit.comhttp://www.classoutfit.com > > On 23 Feb 2011, at 08:25, Axel wrote: > > > Very interesting! > > > When you speak of $this->Car->Race->Spectator, the "->" arrow can > > represent any association, belongsTo, hasMany, hasOne,..? > > > I find quite hard to understand how a model can be a property or > > attribute of another object model? The constructing of those model > > classes is still full of opacity for me. > > > Thank you for your both answers. > > > On Feb 22, 9:24 pm, dtemes <dte...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The classregistry way is the one I have seen as response to similar > >> questions. > > >> In your example you are talking about races, so probably your Race > >> model has many cars and also has many spectators, in that case models > >> A and B are linked throug model C, so you could code something like: > > >> $this->Car->Race->Spectator->find(.... > > >> Please cakephp gurus out there, correct me if I'm wrong. > > >> Regards > > >> On 21 feb, 09:48, Axel <the...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >>> Hello, > > >>> I'm still a bit stuck in the MVC architecture. I've two models A and B > >>> which are not logically linked (let's imagine model A is a racing car > >>> and model B is a spectator of a race), so I haven't built any > >>> association between them. How can I use both models in a function in > >>> model A, I mean what is the best way to load B in A ? I4ve in mind two > >>> solution : first one is loading models in controller, retrieving data > >>> and passing them to function, but it's not controllers thin models > >>> fat. Second one is classregistry loading inside of the model, but > >>> might it be time consuming? > > >>> Example : > > >>> -------------FIRST example ------------------- > >>> AController > >>> { > > >>> function AAA($a_id,$b_id) > >>> { > >>> $a=$this->a->find(..conditions => ... a_id....) > >>> $this->loadModel('b'); > >>> $b=$this->b->find((..conditions => ... b_id...); > >>> $result=$this->a->funA($a,$b) > >>> } > > >>> } > > >>> AModel > >>> { > >>> function funA($a,$b) > >>> {Logic, whole stuff, data treatment} > > >>> } > > >>> ------------SECOND example ----------------------- > > >>> AController > >>> { > >>> function AAA($a_id,$b_id) > >>> { > >>> $result=$this->a->funA($a_id,$b_id) > >>> } > > >>> } > > >>> AModel > >>> { > >>> function funA($a_id,$b_id) > >>> { > >>> $a=$this->find(..conditions => ... a_id....) > >>> $b=ClassRegistry::init(a)->find(..conditions => ... b_id....) > >>> } > > >>> } > > >>> Thank you a lot! > > > -- > > Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video > > Tutorialshttp://tv.cakephp.org > > Check out the new CakePHP Questions sitehttp://ask.cakephp.organd help > > others with their CakePHP related questions. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/cake-php -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. 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
