I thought the preferred way was to add the models at the top of the controller:
var $uses = array('Product', 'Category'); But investigating briefly, it seems like there is a performance hit for this nice syntax - I found the following post at nabble: >Don't use $uses, ever. It is terrible for performance. > >Always access models through their associations, ie. $this->model1- >>model2->find(); > >If you don't have any associations to the model you want, use the >following before accessing your model: > >App::import('Model', 'Product'); >$tmpProduct = new Product(); >$tmpProduct->find(); --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---