Re: General development with MVC and Cake in particular

There are a couple of ways you could to that. One way is to start the
user at acton A, rhee form on action A submits to action B and action
B submits to action C.

Or you could use a bit of ajax magic, or do a google search for the
wizard component. The wizard component is quite nice.

On Jun 8, 11:53 pm, Mike A <m...@isye.gatech.edu> wrote:
> I'm new to Cake and the MVC style of programming.  I've had no luck
> finding a guide to best practices for programming this way, or even
> guides to building anything much more complicated than a blog.  I've
> been tasked with rebuilding an ancient intranet app, and I'm trying to
> use Cake to do it.  I could use a bit of advice on the best way to go
> about this.
>
> Our current app is written in Fusebox 3.  It's designed to track our
> staff vacation and sick days works as follows:
>
> 1.  user selects the employee who is taking time off
> 2.  script pulls that employees data from database A
> 3.  user is given a web form with the employees data filled in
> 4.  user selects the dates of leave and if it is charged to vacation
> and sick time, then submits the form
> 5.  script records info to database B
> 6.  web page displays the employees updated sick and vacation totals
>
> In the existing Fusebox app, I can chain a series of php pages
> together (actions, views and queries) to do all the work.  Data is
> passed from page to page via POST variables.
>
> Can someone give me advice on how to do all this in Cake?  I'm trying
> to figure out the best way.  Should I create a function in the
> controller for each step?  How can I pass that data back and forth?
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice you can give.
>
> Mike

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