Re: Simple MVC Question

2008-05-01 Thread validkeys
Hey Annie, I had similar problems when I started and still have problems sometimes (although less often now) regarding where things go and try to stick to the MVC architecture. This is sort of what i think about when i have this problem. 1. If i am doing a complicated query (more than one conditi

Re: Simple MVC Question

2008-05-01 Thread annie.r.knight
Thanks again, It's starting to make sense now -- switching views depending on the result of the validation wasn't something I was really contemplating but I see how that would be a cleaner solution. I may be on IRC later to confirm my understanding! Much appreciated. On May 1, 10:10 am, "Marcin

Re: Simple MVC Question

2008-05-01 Thread Marcin Domanski
if you do it my way - the error message from the validate array will be put under the dropdown on the same page. in the action there would be something similar to bake generates but with $this->Model->validates() iinstead of save() if it valdiates - show the other view with the table you can come

Re: Simple MVC Question

2008-05-01 Thread annie.r.knight
Thanks for the quick reply. I'm not sure whether that solves my problem: I'm okay with selecting which output to produce, my problem is in the construction of the books table/warning message. Where does this occur? What I've got at the moment is something like this in the view: if(!$showtable)

Re: Simple MVC Question

2008-05-01 Thread Marcin Domanski
Hey, >From what you said you want to make a validation rule like >0 (if 0 is the value of ---please select a genre---) and Model::validate() it (you probably dont want to save it), if it valdiates - show the books On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 9:54 AM, annie.r.knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ...

Simple MVC Question

2008-05-01 Thread annie.r.knight
... at least I hope it's simple for you guys. Clearly it's not simple for me otherwise I wouldn't be asking here. I'm using 1.2. I'm trying to get the structure of my app 'right' in terms of MVC execution flow (and CakePHP's implementation of this flow). Here's my situation: I've got a page wher