Question

I have an element for my side bar navigation being called from my layouts/default.ctp file, I need to access some data about categories from my Photos controller. How would I go about doing this?

Answer 1

You can just regard your layous/default.ctp as a normal template,and put

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

where you need it.

b.t.w,use:

$data = $this->requestAction('controller/action');

to access the data