Re: Bootstrap access to a model?

is it worth wrapping it all up in a DB tableless model to take advantage of validation magic and so forth?

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Miles J <mileswjohnson@gmail.com> wrote:

Saving the routes to a file will probably be much easier and less
error prone then trying to connect to the database during the
bootstrap process. Most likely less logic required also.

On Jan 6, 4:13 pm, Greg Skerman <gsker...@gmail.com> wrote:
> they wont be editing the php files themselves, no.... unless they want to..
> but i'm trying to provide an option that doesn't require them to know how to
> code to do it....
>
> I intended on caching the result from the DB which would be akin to
> serializing an array and saving to the file system.....db just seemed like a
> logical place to persist it....
>

> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Miles J <mileswjohn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I guess I still don't understand why a database is needed for this?
> > Are they not going to be editing the PHP files themselves?
>
> > If they aren't, then just save the "routes" as a serialized array into
> > the filesystem and load that everytime instead of hitting the
> > database.
>
> > On Jan 6, 3:41 pm, Greg Skerman <gsker...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Miles, not users, site admins.
> > > The reason i want them to be able to define routes is so they can define
> > > their URL structure themselves, and not have it imposed on them by the
> > > content management system....
>
> > > suppose they have
> > > /articles/1
> > > /articles/2
> > > /articles/3
>
> > > but want them to be accessed as:
>
> > > /products
> > > /products/services
> > > /about
>
> > > ...basically i want a way that they can add content to the site, and then
> > > arrange the URLs in anyway they see fit.....
>
> > > On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 4:24 AM, Miles J <mileswjohn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Why are you allowing users to define routes?
>
> > > > On Jan 6, 8:59 am, majna <majna...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >http://mark-story.com/posts/view/using-custom-route-classes-in-cakephp
> > > > > But this will break reverse routing, if used. All routes must be
> > > > > "connected" for reverse routing to work.
>
> > > > > On Jan 6, 4:57 am, Greg Skerman <gsker...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > > Hi,
>
> > > > > > So i've ditched the idea of having one controller call another.
> > > > Instead,
> > > > > > i've decided a better approach might be to use routes, and have
> > > > "custom"
> > > > > > routes stored in a database, added at runtime in bootstrap.php, and
> > of
> > > > > > course cached.
>
> > > > > > This will allow people to define their own simple routes for site
> > map
> > > > > > organization.
>
> > > > > > So, I know I can probably use App::Import('Controller',
> > > > 'CustomRoutes'); in
> > > > > > bootstrap, and manually initialize the class, but are there any
> > reasons
> > > > why
> > > > > > i shouldn't do this? I'd appreciate thoughts on whether
> > bootstrapping a
> > > > > > controller/model is a good thing or a bad thing.
>
> > > > > > Have at it :)
>
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