Question

According to the manual and my code, this should be working perfect, but it is not. I’ve been messing around with this code for too long, and I wanted anyone to look at it to see if there is something I cannot see.

I am trying to call the index() action of my plans controller passing an array of data to the element for display. Anyone know why this is not working?

I am getting common error:

Notice (8): Undefined variable: 
plans [APP/views/elements/search_dental_plans_results.ctp,  line 12]
Warning (2): Invalid argument supplied for foreach()
[APP/views/elements/search_dental_plans_results.ctp, line 12]

And here is my code:

home.ctp

<?php echo $this->element('search_dental_plans_results'); ?>

views/elements/search_dental_plans_results.ctp

<h2>Plans List</h2>
<?php $plans = $this->requestAction('plans/index'); ?>
<?php foreach($plans as $plan): ?>
<ol>
<li><?php echo $plan['Plan']['id']; ?></li>
</ol>
<?php endforeach; ?>

controllers/plans_controller.php

function index() {
    //$plans = $this->paginate();
    if (isset($this->params['requested'])) {
        return $plans;
    } else {
        $this->set('plans', $plans);
    }
}

Answer 1

I SOLVED this in an “unexpected” way (at least according to the manual this method was not noted):

element

…

$planDetails = $this->requestAction('/planDetails/pd_list');
foreach ($planDetails as $planDetail) :

…

controller logic

function pd_list() {
return $this->PlanDetail->find('all');
}

Works like a charm : ) although I am going to use a containable and cache control when done, but at least its working as expected.

Not too holy and problem solved : )