Question

I am in a situation where I am trying to pass a value from a controller action to an element directly.

The only way I know how to do this is with requestAction(), but I don’t like using that feature for resource reasons and its not recommended in the manual.

Can anyone shed some light on another method?

Here is what I have now:

Bird Controller action:

    function element_array_pass() {
    $this->paginate['Bird'] = array(
        'fields'  => array('id', 'name'),
        'contain' => array('id', 'name'),
        'order'   => 'Bird.id'
    );
    $bird_elmnt = $this->paginate('Bird');
    $this->set(compact('bird_elmnt', $bird_elmnt));
}

dir: views/elements/element_array_pass.ctp

debug($bird_elmnt); // nothing being passed here.

dir: views/birds/index.ctp

I include the element in this file, but the array will not pass.

echo $this->element('element_array_pass',array("bird_elmnt" => $bird_elmnt)); // call to element.

I would like to include this element in my index.ctp with values passed from the action() I included above.

Answer 1

echo $this->element('birds_paginator_element',array('bird_elmnt_var'=>$bird_elmnt_var));