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GaryDevenay
GaryDevenay

Reputation: 2415

Using the same model across various controllers CakePHP

I've just started reading up on CakePHP and everything is going pretty good so far, though I have a query on the best way to do the following:

I have a "User" model and a "UsersController" controller.

I currently have a "home" page which is controlled by the home_controller.php (obviously). The home page contains a registration for for a user.

The Question

When the form is posted from the home page, I need to access the User model (from the home controller).

What is the best practice for this task?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 313

Answers (3)

mark
mark

Reputation: 21743

you can easily share one model across many controllers

var $uses = array('ModelName');

I do that with User Model and

  • Account Controller (Login, Register, ...)
  • Members Controller (Search, Listing, Profile, ...)
  • Overview Controller (Start Page, Home, ...)

for example. they all share the User Model.

Upvotes: 1

Anh Pham
Anh Pham

Reputation: 5481

I currently have a "home" page which is controlled by the home_controller.php (obviously) What other methods do you have in home_controller, other than index? And in Cake convention, the controller is plural, so: users, categories... Most likely, you are not aware of pages_controller and routing in Cake.

Anyway, yes, you can make a post to any controller (or even to another domain) from any page, just like any regular HTML page. echo $this->Form->create('User', array('controller'=>'users','action' => 'register')); You can read more here: http://book.cakephp.org/view/1384/Creating-Forms

Upvotes: 0

Henri
Henri

Reputation: 740

If I understand the situation correctly, I would post the form to some function in users controller. Then this function would save the data, or log in, or whatever. Finally make redirect back to home for example.

Upvotes: 1

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