Question

Question about controllers.
Can controller call it`s own class methods inside an action?

EDIT:
Oh sorry. I meant I dont want to repeat myself. 🙂

Answer 1

Why not?

It’s all up to you, but I really don’t see the reason to avoid DRY ( LOL ). The sense of MVC is to have separated controller / model / view, nothing else 🙂

EDIT:
Still yes, controller can call it’s own methods inside of actions. Good practice would be to give action methods names like action_something or something_action, and have a ‘base’ controller which you’d extend later. Like;

Controller
Controller_Application extends Controller
Controller_Layout extends Controller_Application

where the first one would be some kind of ‘abstraction’ (framework-oriented) and others would take care of application logics. So later you’d have …

Controller_Forum extends Controller_Layout
Controller_News extends Controller_Layout
Controller_Ajax extends Controller_Application

depending on what you want to use certain controller for.

It’s all up to you; you can put your own methods where ever you want to and call them from where ever you want to 🙂