Re: Objectized model data (again)

Hi cricket,

thank you for your reply. I know it seems a lot of work, but there are
other benefits for the objectized method, too. The first thing is,
with new approach, I would NOT have access to the model, but just to
some sort of Helper-Class (something like a stdObject with getters).
Another thing that would be nice is that, since all the calls in the
views go to methods, it is easy to adjust those. Lets say everywhere I
want to output the name of my product, I want to automatically link
the text half a year later (only for example).. In default cakephp, I
would need to go in each element and view that shows the product name
and add something like $this->Html->link($p['Product']['name'] ....).
If I do this with a method, I could define it just different (like
Product::getName() => return $this->Html->link($this->name ...);)
After all, I think stuff like this would be a huge benefit for later
developement, it may cost some time to implement but then again you
have the possibility to do stuff later with just a view changes in the
model (or HelperClass).

Greetings from Germany,
Chris

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