Question

I have two controllers which share most of their code (but must be, nonetheless, different controllers). The obvious solution (to me, at least) is to create a class, and make the two controllers inherit from it. The thing is… where to put it? Now I have it in app_controller.php, but it’s kind of messy there.

Answer 1

In cake, components are used to store logic that can be used by multiple controllers. The directory is /app/controllers/components. For instance, if you had some sharable utility logic, you would have an object called UtilComponent and a file in /app/controlers/components called UtilComponent.php.

<?php class UtilComponent extends Object {     function yourMethod($param) {         // logic here.......          return $param;     } } ?> 

Then, in your controller classes, you would add:

var $components = array('Util'); 

Then you call the methods like:

$this->Util->yourMethod($yourparam); 

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