Comments on: Criki – the creation of a wiki with CakePHP, Part 2

By: Muhammad Hassan

Muhammad Hassan — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 19:05:57 +0000

Thank you for this tutorial.
Muhammad Hassan
http://www.BadrIT.com

By: Seth

Seth — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 18:18:58 +0000

@cakebaker: Thanks for taking the time to explain that. I feel Cake’s docs are a bit lacking and sometimes inconsistent (in addition to 99% of the tutorials using mixtures of current and deprecated code) so it’s been difficult for me to pick up on things.

Love the site!

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 08:30:17 +0000

@duane: That’s good to hear, I am looking forward for the next installments of this series.

By: duane

duane — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 18:48:06 +0000

At the beginning of Part 5 (completed last week, but I don’t have a timetable for when they will publish it), the Wiki markup is moved off to a helper. I didn’t have wordcount to cover helpers available in Part 2, though I should have covered it in Part 3.

Ultimately, that’s the direction it goes though.

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:59:20 +0000

@Seth: Sure. Look at EntriesController::view(), in this function the parsing of the wiki document happens. If this functionality is put to a component, this function could look like:

function view($title = null) {
  if(!$title) {
    $this->Session->setFlash('Invalid Entry.');
    $this->redirect('/entries/index');
  }
  $entry = $this->Entry->findByTitle($title);
  if ($entry) {
    $content = $entry['Entry']['content'];
    $this->set('entry', $this->Parser->parse($content));
  } else {
    $this->redirect('/entries/edit/' . preg_replace("/[^a-z]/", '', strtolower($title)));
  }
}

I hope you see what I mean :)

By: Seth

Seth — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:33:58 +0000

You said “I think the rendering of the markup shouldn’t be done in the controller.”

I was wondering if you could elaborate a little more, or provide a counter-example. After poking around through the source code, and being new to CakePHP, I couldn’t figure out what you meant by that.