Re: Modular Design?

2007-01-24 Thread Davy
Hi, I'd also like to know how to accomplish this. On Jan 14, 12:34 am, NewbieCaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I am new to CakePHP and have a question regarding modular coding in cake. Basically, let's say I am implementing a bookstore, and I want to have a generic layout that will

Re: Modular Design?

2007-01-24 Thread dkarlson
I don't know if this is the right way to do things or not On Jan 24, 2:05 pm, Davy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'd also like to know how to accomplish this. On Jan 14, 12:34 am, NewbieCaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I am new to CakePHP and have a question regarding modular

Re: Modular Design?

2007-01-24 Thread Chris Hartjes
On 1/13/07, NewbieCaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A typical usage of this is the modules concept on Joomla/Mambo... Well, this ain't Joomla/Mambo now, is it? ;) Trying to import non-MVC concepts into an MVC framework are difficult because, well, they're not MVC. I think dkarlson pointed

Re: Modular Design?

2007-01-24 Thread Grant Cox
I believe the correct way to have self-contained elements is for the element to perform a requestAction to get the data it needs. If you have $data = $this-requestAction( '/books/toplist' ); in your element, and your /books/toplist action is something like function toplist(){ return

Re: Modular Design?

2007-01-24 Thread robechar
You might try using the requestAction() method which exists in the view class (and also controller class). This allows you to make requests to any other controller that you want to envoke, which would make Cake work in a modular fashion. robechar. On Jan 24, 12:44 pm, Chris Hartjes [EMAIL

Re: Modular Design?

2007-01-24 Thread the_woodsman
I want my modules to be totally independent and completely modular, in an encapsulated way that they will have their own model/own controller and own view and I just want to include this as a black box. I think Cake plugins are the nearest match to this - see the manual: