Question

I have a CakePHP website and navigaton links are stored in database. What i want is for some navigation entries to call custom function which will return some additional, dynamic data about the link: I want to add a count of articles for link “Vacancies”. I could call a function on a model that would return total count. This link is to be rendered on every page.

So i need to get appropriate models instance, but not for the current request, but the request where url points to.

So basically i have url “/en/vacancies”. I can get controller name by:

 $urlInfo = Router::parse("/en/vacancies");
 $controllerName = $urlInfo['controller'];

What would be the reliable way to do that?

Any other solutions for the problem are welcome.

Answer 1

Assuming you have the method to gather the navigation link data in a Model.

App::import('Controller', $controllerName);
$controller = new $controllerName;

$controller->loadModel('YourModel');
$yourModel = $controller->YourModel;

$yourData = $yourModel->your_method();

There are a variety of other ways to do this. But, without knowing more about where you’re actually going to be calling this function I can’t really provide anymore suggestions.