Re: Model should be fat or thin?

It's not about counting lines, rather putting code in the right place.

There's a minimum amount of code that must be put in a controller for operating on a model to work.The meaning of fat-model, thin controller is don't do this:

    function confabulate($id) {

        $data = $this->Foo->findById($id);

        ... several lines of code later

        if ($success) {

            return $this->redirect(array('action' => 'view', $id));

        }

        return $this->redirect(array('action' => 'index'));

    }

But instead to write:

    function confabulate($id) {

        $success = $this->Foo->confabulate($id); // <- create this method

        if ($success) {

            return $this->redirect(array('action' => 'view', $id));

        }

        return $this->redirect(array('action' => 'index'));

    }

This does not apply to the blog tutorial in that there _is_ no model code in use except basic CRUD functionality.

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