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Great answer, thank you. Extending your 'looking ahead' scenario slightly; if there is common information on a page that is separate to what is requested (e.g. user is viewing a specific product, a general list of 'latest special offers' are shown at the side) how/where should the call to the offers_model->get_latest() be made? Adding this into every method in the controller (as I've foolishly attempted before) seems like overkill and distinctly un-DRY.

Adam Westbrook
– Adam Westbrook

2013-01-31 19:02:12 +00:00
Commented Jan 31, 2013 at 19:02
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@AdamWestbrook Take a look at MVVM. The ViewModel part of that can address this specific problem. You can add the offers_model->get_latest() to a ProductViewModel base class or something similar.

Zachary Yates
– Zachary Yates

2013-01-31 19:05:42 +00:00
Commented Jan 31, 2013 at 19:05
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Great, I'll definitely look into MVVM, thanks again.

Adam Westbrook
– Adam Westbrook

2013-01-31 19:14:23 +00:00
Commented Jan 31, 2013 at 19:14
Very good answer, will defiantly keep this starred. Personally I'm also a big fan of MVVM :)

Benjamin Gruenbaum
– Benjamin Gruenbaum

2013-01-31 21:44:22 +00:00
Commented Jan 31, 2013 at 21:44
@BenjaminGruenbaum Are you using MVVM in PHP? If so are you using a particular framework for it?

Adam Westbrook
– Adam Westbrook

2013-02-01 10:42:54 +00:00
Commented Feb 1, 2013 at 10:42

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