Re: Cleaner display of related data in baked views? displayField?

Brian,

Thanks for the reality/sanity check before I launch into this. I
appreciate it. I am keeping a text file "To-Do" list of all of the
decisions I need to make and CakePHP features that I have to figure
out!

Jim

On Apr 28, 6:05 pm, brian <bally.z...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 7:35 PM, geste <jim.ho...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Brian,
>
> > Personally, I'll take your response to mean "I'm not out of my
> > mind".
>
> I'm not sure what you mean but I don't think either of us are out of
> their mind. :-)
>
> > Yes, time to leave scaffolding behind, but there were some helpful
> > (and not always helpful) defaults like "show name value for FK id".
>
> For sure. Scaffolding is a big head start. But it can only provide a
> basic view and should be considered as a starting point. Not many
> people are going to want to display the model's ID, for instance. Or
> list paginated results in a table.
>
> > Like you say, I don't want to add more data for no good reason.  I had
> > some vague notion of a helper that would return "name-for-id" or some
> > other way of reformatting FK IDs in a way that would be inheritable.
> > But if there's no fault to find with just editing baked views to show
> > view vars, then I will go with that.  Just figured I'd aske before I
> > go back and rebake 35 unscaffolded views!
>
> I think a helper for that would be a bit tricky and probably not worth
> the effort. You'd have to pass it the name of the associated model and
> the field name as well, for instance. Like I said, this sort of thing
> would be best in afterFind() if it's done at all. That way, it can be
> tailored to a specific model.
>
> But, personally, I think simply using the associated array is much
> more straightforward.
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