Question

I need to write a modular function that could work with any kind of controller. I need, at runtime, to do something like.

$tools=array("a","b","c");
foreach($tools as $tool{
   ...
   //here there should be something like add_to_$uses($tool)
   $this->{$tool}->find();

Obviously simply adding the item to $this->uses doesn’t work. How am I supposed to do this?

Answer 1

I think what you need is loadModel method.

$tools=array("a","b","c");
foreach($tools as $tool) {
   // ...
   $this->loadModel($tool);
   $this->{$tool}->find();
}

More info in CakePHP’s Book