Re: Where best to put query logic?

2006-08-05 Thread nate
Nope, what you're doing makes complete sense. The purpose of the controller is to act as the "glue" between the model and the view. The controller can also aggregate and operate on other types of data as well, and for some of the logic, you need data outside the model, i.e. session data, so it m

Re: Where best to put query logic?

2006-08-05 Thread LikeSoy
EDIT: Then my controller would be mostly lines like: $this->set('widgets', $this->Widget->getAllWidgets()); --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake

Where best to put query logic?

2006-08-05 Thread LikeSoy
I'm fairly new to OO development, and I'm probably overthinking this, but ... The manual explains [find($x), findAll($x), findAllBy($x)] as model functions which leads me to want to put all of my dbaccess logic there, within functions like getAllWidgets, getSubWidgets, etc. Then my controller wo