Question

I’m developing a website with symfony 1.4. The users upload photos and the photos are saved in a database.

Now on the homepage, I have some content and I want to have a section that shows the recently uploaded photos. I’m not sure what is the best way of doing this. Could you please point me in right direction?

The only way I can think of is to have $sf_content hold the main content (which will come from the app/modules) and for recent uploads, have layout.php do database access+business logic+rendering but that will violate the MVC and will involve huge database access every time the user navigates in the website.

Can it be made better?

Answer 1

You can use components.

apps/yourapp/modules/yourmodule/actions/components.class.php

class yourmodulenameComponents extends sfComponents {


    public function executeRfoto() {

        $this->photos = Doctrine_Core::getTable('Photo') ->getRecentPhotos();

    }

In model:

public function getRecentPhotos()
  {
    $q = $this->createQuery('a')
              ->addORDERBY('DESC');

    return $q->execute();
  }

in your apps/yourapp/modules/yourmodule/themplates/_rfoto.php

    foreach ($photos as $photo){
// Make some stuff
}

And In layout.php , or other place where you want to put your photo:

   <?php include_component('yourmodule' ,'rfoto')?>