Question

I’ve integrated GeoIP into my CakePHP. Now I have to call it from my view-file. I made in my controller such function:

function getCountry($ip)
{
    $this->GeoIP->countryName($ip);
}

GeoIP is a included component.

When I wrote in my view globally something like this:
$this->GeoIP->countryName('8.8.8.8') it works well, but, as I remember, this is wrong for MCV architecture. So the right way is to call requestAction for my controller.

Here I have 2 problems: I have to do this in php function which is located in view-file:

// MyView.php:
<?php
   function Foo()
   {
      $this->GeoIP->countryName(...);
   }
?>

First mistake is that $this isn’t available inside the function, the second one is how to call getCountry from my component and pass need ip address into $ip?

I’ve tried:

echo $this->requestAction('Monitoring/getCountry/8.8.8.8');

Monitoring is a controller name.

But this returns nothing without any errors. What’s the right way and how to call this in function?

Answer 1

Something like this:

Layout -> View/Layouts/default.ctp (works on any other view/element or block)

<h1>My Website</h1>
<?php echo $this->element('GeoIP') ?>

Element -> View/Elements/GeoIP.ctp (use an element so you can cache it and don’t request the controller every time)

<?php
$country = $this->requestAction(array('controller' => 'Monitoring', 'action' => 'ipToCountry'));

echo "You're from {$country}?";
?>

Controller -> Controller/MonitoringController.php

public function ipToCountry() {
    // Only accessible via requestAction()
    if (empty($this->request->params['requested']))
        throw new ForbiddenException();

    return $this->GeoIP->countryName('8.8.8.8');
}