i had similar cases in my apps. i usually handle this with creating a model
with custom made methods inside it. afterwards, just load the model and use
model methods. i dint ran into any troubles and i know this is pretty much
straight forward way of doing this kind of thing. i guess making a
component or a plugin gives some extra work, but im not sure is it a so
much better way worth those extra work.
hope this helps.
cheers
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Jeremy Burns
jeremybu...@classoutfit.comwrote:
A question that I perhaps I should know the answer to, but I am not clear
on the recommended approach - I am open to ideas.
I want to add a wizard process to an app. A wizard takes a user through a
series of steps by visiting pages in sequence. Wizard availability and
progress is managed in the session. The wizards are configurable with the
definitions stored in tables (wizards, wizard_types and wizard_steps) - I
have all the MVC goodness sorted for managing those. The wizard tables are
not associated with any other tables.
I want to make those wizards available to users. So first I need to grab
the list of wizards from the Wizard model and store them in session. When a
user chooses one, an element appears that gives them information about the
wizard, shows the completed, current and next steps and takes them to a
page. So I need to access the wizard data/models/controllers from other
models/controllers that are not related to any others. Ideally this would
be a plugin as it lays over other functionality that ought to be agnostic
of it. I guess I could:
1) Make it a plugin - but I still have the same challenge - how do I call
a plugin-controller function from another?
2) Do some clever plugin/component callback trickery that is beyond me.
3) Use loadModel - but then I don't have access to controller functions
(for managing the session, for example) and need to stitch functions into
core models.
4) User requestAction in elements - but that seems a bit hacky. In any
case, I probably need something triggered in AppController-beforeFilter to
check the wizard status and decide what to do next.
So - pardon my ignorance - but I am really not sure the preferred way of
doing this. What are your recommendations?
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