Not sure I follow you there. The element on the side only gets refreshed if loaded thru standard HTTP request.
Page A, B and C are different controller actions unrelated to each other so to get that data for each page if loaded thru HTTP will require getting unrelated models data if done thru the controllers action. No? Maybe not following you there...sorry if I'm wrong. K -----Original Message----- From: cake-php@googlegroups.com [mailto:cake-php@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dr. Loboto Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 12:40 AM To: CakePHP Subject: Re: requestAction question Based on your description I do not see need in requestAction at all. If all you need is 1 model call and one element output you can add data call to appropriate actions or beforeFilter/beforeRender and add element output to the view/layout. Just one more line of code in comparison with requestAction. On 25 фев, 06:21, "Krissy Masters" <naked.cake.ba...@gmail.com> wrote: > Maybe I read it wrong back in the day but something idles in my head about > requestAction being bad. Is this true or still in effect? I am using 1.3.7 > and I think I remember reading back in 1.2 its better to not use that > function. > > “If used without caching requestAction can lead to poor performance. It is > rarely appropriate to use in a controller or model.” > > I have 1 element on 3 pages where I simply need to grab 4 fields from a db > for the element. The element is loaded originally on the first page left > side navigation column, and links load content into the main column so the > element is never refreshed since its on the side nav column except if > someone “open in new tab / window” on the link so the element has no data > because its originally loaded on the main page. So rather than build that > data call into each of those 3 pages I figured request would be the best > option. > > My Picasso below :) > > Side Col | Main Col > ___________________________________________________________________ > | nav => loads into main | content gets loaded here via ajax > |------------------------------------------------------------------| > | > | element | > | > ____________________________________________________________________ > > Just looking for some input on the matter. > > Thanks, > > K -- 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 -- 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
