Re: What is the advised way to call a function from another controller?

or you could put the function in your AppController

On Jan 27, 2:17 pm, leo <ponton....@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not suggesting this is the correct way to do it, but I would put
> those methods in the model definitions to which they relate. Then they
> are accessible from any controller that 'uses' that model in addition
> to its own. Then you can say something like:
>
>     $organisations= $this->Person->Organisation->formData();
>     $genders = $this->Person->Gender->formData();
>     ...and so on...
>
> On Jan 27, 2:07 pm, WebbedIT <p...@webbedit.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Are you sure a component would be correct for this as again the
> > CookBook states "To access/use a model in a component is not generally
> > recommended" and my __formData() functions are made to access models:
>
> > function formData() {
> >   $organisations= $this->Person->Organisation->find('list', array(
> >   'order'=>'Organisation.name ASC'
> >   ));
> >   $this->set(compact('organisations'));
>
> >   $users = $this->Person->User->find('list', array
> > ('fields'=>'User.username'));
> >   $this->set(compact('users'));
> >   $ethnicities = $this->Person->Ethnicity->find('list', array(
> >   'conditions'=>array('Ethnicity.option_list_id'=>'13'),
> >   'fields'=>array('Ethnicity.value'),
> >   'order'=>'Ethnicity.value ASC'
> >   ));
> >   $this->set(compact('ethnicities'));
>
> >   $sexualities = $this->Person->Sexuality->find('list', array(
> >   'conditions'=>array('Sexuality.option_list_id'=>'18'),
> >   'fields'=>array('Sexuality.value'),
> >   'order'=>'Sexuality.value ASC'
> >   ));
> >   $this->set(compact('sexualities'));
>
> >   $religions = $this->Person->Religion->find('list', array(
> >   'conditions'=>array('Religion.option_list_id'=>'30'),
> >   'fields'=>array('Religion.value'),
> >   'order'=>'Religion.value ASC'
> >   ));
> >   $this->set(compact('religions'));
>
> >   $genders = $this->Person->Gender->find('list', array(
> >   'conditions'=>array('Gender.option_list_id'=>'12'),
> >   'fields'=>array('Gender.value'),
> >   'order'=>'Gender.value ASC'
> >   ));
> >   $this->set(compact('genders'));
>
> > }
>
> > Also I would still have to create a lot of logic or duplicate
> > functions within the component so that the find calls were made via
> > the right associations, i.e. the above function would work fine when
> > the referencing controller was PeopleController but when called from
> > ClientController the find calls would have to start $this->Client-
>
> > >Person... and from Staff $this->Staff->Person... etc.
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