Re: calling Controller::render() from a model

I think you are likely over-complicating the issue.

What you seem to really need is an event dispatching system that can
fire off events that your models, controllers, etc can simply respond
to.
Interestingly enough - there is a plugin for that.

https://github.com/m3nt0r/eventful-cakephp

This allows you to have an APP / events folder that can hold model or
controller events (or even a app/plugins/pluginName/events folder)
that simply hold listener functions and a pass by reference instance
of either the model or controller.
I even use it by passing an stdClass into the event lib at the
bootstrap level to fire events @ plugins to collect plugin routes.
There is literally near unlimited flexibility in the coupling of MVC
components using this plugin.

Good luck.

On Aug 18, 2:41 pm, Burningfuses <cassi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I know this looks weird, but I'll try to explain my reasons and hope
> some of you might be able to point me in the right direction.
>
> I'm building a quite complex system, with lots of inner connections.
> One thing that I need to do quite often is to notify users (by email)
> based on some system changes.
> At first I was doing pretty much everything in the controllers, but
> then I found out that I was having a lot of similar code in some of
> them. So my first thought was to access a controller's action from
> another controller. After searching this group I came to the
> conclusion that this was a bad thing to do and to access one
> controller from another is bad practice. So I decided to move this
> logic to a model. My reason was because models can pretty much be
> universally accessible very easily.
>
> Everything was working great, until I tried to get a view using the
> Controller::render() function. I wasn't planning on displaying the
> view from the model, of course. My idea was to send some variables
> that I just got from the database to the view ( using set() ) and then
> storing the render result to a variable. This variable is the body of
> the email that I would send to the user.
>
> I was trying to call render like this from my model:
> $emailBody = Controller::render('/elements/email/html/body', 'email/
> html/default' );
> but I got a warning, a notice and a fatal error:
>
> Warning (512): SQL Error: 1064: You have an error in your SQL syntax;
> check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the
> right syntax to use near 'beforeRender' at line 1 [CORE/cake/libs/
> model/datasources/dbo_source.php, line 684]
> Query: beforeRender
> Notice (8): Undefined property: Conflict::$Component [CORE/cake/libs/
> controller/controller.php, line 864]
> Fatal error: Call to a member function triggerCallback() on a non-
> object in /Users/x/Documents/www/cake/libs/controller/controller.php
> on line 864
>
> I was wondering what would be the right way to do this.
> Please let me know if I was able to make myself clear.
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Burningfuses

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