Re: Fat Models vs. App Controller

[Sam Sherlock]

I have just finished moving some a controller method to a model just now (if the same logic had to be used by multiple models then I would have made a helper) 

my app manges a list of jobs held in a db (an external system puts them in - another reason why behaviours would not work in my case; my system just monitors what the system logs)

so I had a controller method checking the params of a job for validity  if files exist and stuff; is such a record first in set
having the model check validty meant less code overall and great ablity to reuse it 

so now my index view of jobs shows faily detailed overiew of the job params - with error feedback for user

I baked this app in about 8 minutes and tweaked afterwards- very rapid development; near complete


 - S

On 27 February 2011 01:30, Eric Anderson <andersoneric777@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Awesome article. Thanks!

I think I'm going to move everything over to my model, via either an
available function I can then call from other controllers or place the
function in beforeSave, afterSave, etc. Should work great.

Eric

On Feb 26, 5:59 pm, Sam Sherlock <sam.sherl...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> to me it sounds list behaviours
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> all controllers extend the app controller - choose carefully what you put
> here
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> if the stuff is entity related it goes in model
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> you can add to app model (& helper & error also) in the same way as you can
> with app controller
>

> fat models, skinny controllers and athletic behaviourshttp://nuts-and-bolts-of-cakephp.com/tag/observable-behavior/
>  - S

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> On 26 February 2011 23:46, Eric Anderson <andersoneric...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > Ya a component doesn't necessarily work because I'm interfacing with
> > the DB (inserting, deleting, querying) a lot. I'm thinking from
> > articles I've been digging up (Mark Story's personal site) that
> > putting these functions in my Activity controller makes the most
> > sense, then I can just grab feeds, save data, etc by calling the
> > function through related models.
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> > As for "libs", what do you mean? I can create a library for these
> > functions? Can you explain further?
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> > Thanks!
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> > Eric
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> > On Feb 26, 4:39 pm, euromark <dereurom...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > usually you would put functions you use in multiple controllers in
> > > either the model (data?) or a component (logic?)
> > > you can also use libs to "dry" your code :)
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> > > On 27 Feb., 00:02, Eric Anderson <andersoneric...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > > > Hi everyone,
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> > > > Just wondering when it comes to performance and any other factors you
> > > > may deem important, what's the better option for storing functions
> > > > that I will use among many controllers: A function in the model that I
> > > > can then access via $this->Model->Model->function() or a function
> > > > inside of my App Controller?
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> > > > Moreover, when is it better to put a function in a model and when is
> > > > it better to put it in the app controller?
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> > > > To put this in context, I'm investigating this for use with an
> > > > activities feature. I track activities and then display them in feeds.
> > > > Of course, I need to quite often save an activity, feeding it
> > > > arguments (as well as delete an activity). Moreover, I need to often
> > > > grab a feed, customized based on the arguments I feed it. I'm trying
> > > > to avoid using RequestAction.
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> > > > Thanks!
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> > > > Eric
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