Re: Evolution of mini-controllers - thoughts??

2010-07-08 Thread Shaz
>From my understanding - elements are just there as an option to show common views - such as a site with a top-level navigation bar that's the same throughout a website. I'm not sure why you would wish to extend or make us of them as much as you explained above - and using your analogy of trying to

Evolution of mini-controllers - thoughts??

2010-07-07 Thread Roger Kaplan
I've been struggling with the well-trodden issue of wanting stand- alone elements to use requestAction() to isolate their data needs from their hosting controllers, and the good vs evil of that approach. I'm less concerned with the performance aspects than the architectural aspects. The Cake manu