Saturday, February 26, 2011

Fat Models vs. App Controller

Hi everyone,

Just wondering when it comes to performance and any other factors you
may deem important, what's the better option for storing functions
that I will use among many controllers: A function in the model that I
can then access via $this->Model->Model->function() or a function
inside of my App Controller?

Moreover, when is it better to put a function in a model and when is
it better to put it in the app controller?

To put this in context, I'm investigating this for use with an
activities feature. I track activities and then display them in feeds.
Of course, I need to quite often save an activity, feeding it
arguments (as well as delete an activity). Moreover, I need to often
grab a feed, customized based on the arguments I feed it. I'm trying
to avoid using RequestAction.

Thanks!

Eric

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