I am fairly new to CakePHP and have decent experience with MVC, but
the issue of navigation always seems to haunt me. I wanted to run my
navigation idea by anybody who cares to comment, to see if I am
completely over thinking the whole thing.
My example has been simplified for clarity.
What I have is a table in the database page_descriptions that has a
parent child relationship.
CREATE TABLE `page_descriptions` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`parent_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
`sort_order` int(11) default NULL,
`long_id` varchar(100) NOT NULL,
`name` varchar(100) NOT NULL,
`status_id` int(11) NOT NULL default '1',
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=15 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
My model for this looks like this:
page_description.php
<?php
class PageDescription extends AppModel {
var $name = 'PageDescription';
var $validate = array(
'page_id' => VALID_NOT_EMPTY,
'name' => VALID_NOT_EMPTY,
'long_id' => VALID_NOT_EMPTY,
);
var $displayField = 'name';
var $belongsTo = array(
'ParentPage' =>
array('className' => 'PageDescription',
'foreignKey' => 'parent_id',
'fields' => '`id`,
`parent_id`, `long_id`, `name`',
)
);
var $hasMany = array(
'ChildPages' =>
array('className' =>
'PageDescription',
'foreignKey' =>
'parent_id',
'fields' => '`id`,
`parent_id`, `long_id`, `name`',
'order' =>
'`sort_order` DESC',
'exclusive' => 'false',
'dependent' => 'true',
)
);
function findByLongId($long_id = null){
if ($long_id) {
$ret = $this->query("SELECT * FROM page_descriptions
WHERE long_id
= '".$long_id."'");
if ($ret) {
return $ret[0];
} else {
return null;
}
}
}
/*
Navigation Functions
*/
function getNavLevel($int=1){
//return $this->PageDescription->findAllByParentId(1) ;
return $this->PageDescription->findAll("
`PageDescription`.`parent_id` = ".$int." AND
`PageDescription`.`status_id` > 0 ",
null,"`PageDescription`.`sort_order`", null,null,2) ;
}
}
?>
I have edited the routes.php file and added this before last line.
$Route->connect('/*', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' =>
'display'));
So everything not explicitly declared with a controller and action
before hand is sent to the pages_controller.
What I do is use the params['pass'] to get the long_id and use that to
find the specific PageDescription record. Currently this requires
every long_id to be unique, but I have removed the code that resolves
this issue for simplification.
I am also using a half assed "singleton" pattern to query the database
once per session and store this information in a session variable.
OK, so here are my questions.
1. Is there an easier way that will allow for a flexible database
driven navigation system?
2. When I return the PageDescription record, I can set recursion to
get as many levels up of the ParentPage as I could hope for, but the
ChildPages only goes one level deep no matter how I have adjusted the
model.
3. Does anybody have any good examples of how they have handled
something similar.
I appreciate your help.
Thanks,
James
--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake
PHP" group.
To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
