accessible through one page controller... and then all actions from
other controllers articles / banners / etc can be loaded in that page
as blocks or elements... like a element with latest articles, one with
1 article, one with latest comments etc etc.
On Feb 25, 12:12 am, brian <bally.z...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Mech7 <chris.de....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I am having some problem with trying to accomplish many views on 1
> > page... I know requestAction works nice and easy but is expensive so i
> > have been trying to avoid it...
>
> > Basically what i am trying to do is have one page (or view) and have
> > all the other views ( or elements ) loaded in there, dynamically like
> > middle position loads article, right position can load banners or menu
> > etc..
>
> This seems more like a layout that your describing.
>
> > I was thinking instead of using requestAction, I could use App::import
> > ('Controller', $controllerName);
> > in a loop to load every actions... and then load all data in a element
> > which is in the views dir.. which would make the element actually the
> > same as a view, is it possible to change the location of an element to
> > view/articles/element_latest.ctp for example?
>
> > Or does anybody have any good ideas how to do this in other ways... as
> > it kinda feels weird replacing elements as views.
>
> I don't think I understand your question but you can do this in your
> ArticlesController action:
>
> $this->viewPath = 'elements'.DS.'articles';
> $this->render('latest');
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