Re: SecondController extends FirstController extends AppController: not supported? --psybear

Thanks Jamie for your interesting thoughts.

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Jamie <jamie.nay@gmail.com> wrote:
> And since extending controllers beyond the AppController
> relationship isn't really in the docs and not the "official" way to do
> things, there probably hasn't been much impetus to change the
> behavior.

The beauty of modern languages and design patterns is the fact that
many things work "automagically" (when I love something of CakePHP,
then this word!). And beneath the fact that in the official docs
nothing is documented that lies a bit above the very basic
functionalities, I want to point out at least my own situation that
has lead me into wishing an inheritance chain for controllers would be
supported by CakePHP:

I have two kinds of controllers. The first one are the well known
CRUD-controllers that come with a certain model. I need certain
components and helpers for those controllers loaded, and I could be
attempted to place them in the AppController. So for an example, one
of these components "XYZ" takes some action whenever the index()
action is called.
The second kind of controllers are all the other controllers that
deliver non-CRUD-functionality, e.g. PagesController, SearchController
or something like that. Now these controllers don't need the
components of the CRUD-controllers, but when having them placed in
AppController they automatically do! So this is unnecessary overhead,
and also the XYZ component tries to do some action on every
non-CRUD-controller's index() action that could cause problems.
So this leads me to the situation where I have to either load all the
CRUD-components not in the AppController but in every single
CRUD-controller itself, or I have to check within the component
whether the action should be executed or not. Both workarounds aren't
very pretty and lead to duplicated and/or unclean code.

So again: am I the only person who has ever faced this problem? Or is
it another of those situations I pointed to some posts before...?

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