Have my own Controller::var variable that is not overridden by descending AnotherController::var (but merged)? --psybear

Hey everybody

I know that CakePHP applies some magic to inheritance. So when having
a class...

class AppController extends Controller {
var $uses = array('Model', 'AnotherModel');
}

...and then extending another one from it...

class AnotherController extends AppController {
var $uses = array('YetAnotherModel');
}

...we don't end up with AnotherController::uses being...

array('YetAnotherModel')

...(as PHP would normally do it), but with

array('Model', 'AnotherModel', 'YetAnotherModel')

This is very nice! But I wonder how I can use this magic for my own
class variables? E.g. I want AppController::filters to be
array('Filter1', 'Filter2') and then for UsersController I want to add
'Filter3', then normally I would have to use the beforeFilter:

UsersController extends AppController {
function beforeFilter() {
$this->filters[] = 'Filter3';
}
}

But this isn't very beautiful, so I'd rather use the CakePHP magic
mentioned above. But how could I do this? Is there an easy way to tell
CakePHP to treat "filters" the same way as "uses" etc.?

Thanks a lot for help
Josh

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