Re: separate class that prepares an IteratorAggregate object for View layer - where to place this?

I am using Twig so that I can make it as easy for designers to design
themes as possible without knowing php.

Currently, Twig evaluates the strings, arrays, objects like this
http://www.twig-project.org/doc/templates.html#variables

i want to keep things as simple and as brief as possible.

Hence I want to make it such that designers need only use
{{ cars.size }} , {{ cars.first }} and {{ cars.last }}

So i guessed that cars cannot be usual php arrays, but objects with
attributes for size, first and last.

If my understanding is wrong about php arrays, i apologise.

Please educate me on how usual php arrays can possibly have these
attributes as well.

On Jul 5, 7:17 am, euromark <dereurom...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> why are the normal 1.3 arrays not working for you?
> they also have all those functions built in (in plain php functions
> then of course)
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> On 5 Jul., 01:06, Zeu5 <kimc...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I have cars controller, Car model and views for cars.
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> > I am using Twig 1.0,http://www.twig-project.org/doc/templates.html#list-of-control-struct...
> > Cake 1.3
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> > I want to do the following in the controller:
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> > function index() {
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> > ...
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> > $carData = $this->Car->find('all');
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> > $cars = Car::prepareForView($carData);
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> > $this->set('cars', $cars);
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> > }
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> > the prepareForView will turn the car data into an object that
> > implements the IteratorAggregatehttp://php.net/manual/en/class.iteratoraggregate.php
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> > the reason is because i want to be able to do the following in the
> > view using Twig.
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> > {{ cars.size }} // returns me the size
> > {{ cars.first }} // returns me the first element of the array
> > {{ cars.last }} // returns me the last element of the array
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> > Am i right in wanting to prepare the array as an IteratorAggregate?
> > If i do this for Car and other models, how should i do it?
>
> > Advice, please. Thank you.

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