Hello, I have been using Cake for a week now. I have learned a lot,
but still have a long way to go. I have a few questions still. Mostly
I am trying to learn "the cake way" to do things so that I am flowing
with the framework and not fighting against it.
1. I have a few global functions I use in some sites I make. Basically
extending the PHP library (in concept). I would not think it is a wise
thing to add to basics.php. Instead I am hoping there is some way to
add to this within the application folder. Is this possible at all?
2. What is the best way to handle state and country dropdowns. I did
find GeographyHelper. Is this how everyone does it? I would ideally
want to create these dropdowns from a list in my database.
2a. Is there a way to cache data selected from my database, such as a
list of State, which I know will never be changing (or at least it is
a rare occurance).
3. (FormHelper) I have been using Cake 1.2 and FormHelper. I find
myself doing things like this all of the time--
<?
foreach($clients as $client) $c[$client['Client']['id']] =
$client['Client']['name'];
echo $form->select('client_select', $c);
?>
Is there a way to avoid that step of creating that array? Maybe just
pass a Model and a the strings 'id' and 'name' to FormHelper. What
would be the standard way to handle this?
Thank you,
Rob
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