Trying to figure out the the correct way of doing things...

Hi,

I have a posts table and a postvideos table. Posts can have a main
video but can also have many videos. In my view I want to display a
video icon next to the post title when a post has a main or many
videos.

so at the moment I have a function at the controller that checks
whether a post has a main or many videos and returns a video image
icon, which I display in my view with requestAction. However I have a
strong feeling that this is a wrong way of doing things and it breaks
MVC. What is the recommended approach for something like this?

Controller:

function hasvideo($id) {
App::import('Helper', 'Html');
$html = new HtmlHelper();
$post = $this->Post->findById($id);
$videos = count($post['Postvideo']); if($post['Post']
['main_video'] && $post['Post']['media'] == 1) $hasmainvideo = 1; else
$hasmainvideo = 0;
if($videos > 0 || $hasmainvideo == 1) return $html-
>image('themed/kretaworldbasket/video.png', array('title' => 'Post has
video', 'width' => 16, 'height' => 8, 'style' => 'margin-left:
5px;'));
}

View:
<?php echo $this->requestAction('/posts/hasvideo/'.$editorpick['Post']
['id']); ?>

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