Re: Is it possible for a View to access another unrelated Model's data?

Generally, it's bad practice for a View to perform direct finds against a Model.  Even when the model is related to a view via convention, it is usually the controller that has performed the find, and executed a $this->set(compact('modelData')) or similar to expose the model data to a view.

With that in mind, you can expose any model to the view via the controller, by finding the data in the controller, and exposing via $this->set().  You just may need to the unrelated models in the controller via $this->loadModel(), or in the $uses variable of the controller, if it is used often.

In the View or in Elements, you may be able to use $this->requestAction() to call a specific controller action to get data to display in a View or Element, however, this is not something I do, so someone else or the CakePHP Book may have better guidelines on actual usage.

Regards

Reuben Helms

On Monday, 20 January 2014 12:32:05 UTC+10, Sam wrote:

From what I understand from cakephp, a view is associated to a model and can only access the model's data. Is it possible for a View to access another unrelated Model's data? What I mean is whether it is possible for a view to access any database table's data, even if it is unrelated?

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