Comments on: CakePHP Models and requestAction http://beyondthewheel.com/cakephp-models-and-requestaction/ Web Development Thu, 13 May 2010 12:35:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Nik Chankov http://beyondthewheel.com/cakephp-models-and-requestaction/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Nik Chankov Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:08:01 +0000 http://beyondthewheel.com/?p=33#comment-15 I would say that requestAction is to process the controller's action, or even to render the view. In the book.cakephp.org was written this: [quote]This function calls a controller's action from any location and returns data from the action. You can use requestAction() to retrieve a fully rendered view by passing 'return' in the options: requestAction($url, array('return')); [/quote] So I would say calling using $uses is the better way. Another way is to use App::import('Model', 'ModelName') or is the model has relation with the current model to use it with $this->CurrentModel->OtherRelatedModel->find() Hope that helps :) I would say that requestAction is to process the controller’s action, or even to render the view.

In the book.cakephp.org was written this:
[quote]This function calls a controller’s action from any location and returns data from the action.
You can use requestAction() to retrieve a fully rendered view by passing ‘return’ in the options: requestAction($url, array(‘return’));
[/quote]

So I would say calling using $uses is the better way. Another way is to use App::import(‘Model’, ‘ModelName’) or is the model has relation with the current model to use it with $this->CurrentModel->OtherRelatedModel->find()

Hope that helps :)

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