I think it would be good to have such representation. It took me a long time to see the big picture of how cake is functioning, and there is still a lot of unclear thing. The link of Nate is cool but I'm not sure how it help newbies: Look at the step 3 where the controller is. honestly you've to know cake to understand that part, to know what a model is, what a requestaction is, ... It seems to be a good start, but to me, A good graphic representation would need a bit more details, and should outline the MVC structure. It should tell what the dispatcher does with the params, that the model are defined in a similar manner to how we build a db scheme (LDM).
Do you know a "online paperboard" website ? So we could tell collectively and graphically how it should look like. Olivvv AD7six wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm looking for a graphical representation of how cake handles a > request. > > I came across > http://jmp.xybyx.com/img/overview2.png > and > http://grahambird.co.uk/cake/tutorials/howitworks.php > > both of which are very useful for understanding the basics, but miss > some objects. > > Has anyone already created, or is there a page existing somewhere in > the manual that I've yet to find, an image that describes graphically > all of the various objects used by Cake (or any MVC for that matter) > such that none-developers can see how things fit together, in > particular everything to do with presentation? As you might guess I'm > trying to explain to someone (none-technical) I'm working with > generally how things work and which files to edit, but after repeating > myself 2 or 3 times I think it's time for a picture. > > The difficulty seems to stem from the concept of a dispacher; the > 'black magic' of mod_rewrite/cake pretty urls and the URL requested may > not directly relate to what is expected (routes; using one edit.thtml > for add & edit methods etc.). > > Any help or comments most welcome, > > Cheers, > > AD7six > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
