Re: Using Model constants all over app

i found that one, too.

Just wondered if there is any better solution to it or to the whole
thing.

On Dec 23, 12:54 pm, euromark <dereurom...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> that's exactly how I do it:http://www.dereuromark.de/2010/06/24/static-enums-or-semihardcoded-at...
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> On 23 Dez., 11:23, func0der <funco...@web.de> wrote:
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> > Hey guys,
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> > i worked a lit with Magento in the last months.
> > They used, in my opinion, a really good way to configurate and/or
> > access for example status fields.
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> > They had a table field for example for the status of an order.
> > 0 meant cancelled
> > 1 meant payed
> > 2 meant completed
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> > In the Model they used constants for identifying these statuses (if
> > this is the plural of it)
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> > class Order{
> >    const ORDER_STATUS_CANCELLED = 0;
> >    const ORDER_STATUS_PAYED = 1;
> >    const ORDER_STATUS_COMPLETED = 2;
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> > }
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> > So they could access these constants from as good as anyway with
> > Order::ORDER_STATUS_CANCELLED.
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> > Is there a way to do so in cakephp?
> > I mean without requiring the class, using "new" and so on?
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> > I need to access it from helpers, views, models, controllers and
> > everywhere.
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> > Any idea?
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> > Greetings
> > func0der

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