视图中的业务逻辑 - CakePHP

Question

I have a home page which is a blog by default. I want the user to be able to turn the blog off in case they want a static page instead [set in the database]

Problem is:

1) Do I do the business in the view (Which I know is bad practice)

or

2) Do I do it all in the controller (Which will require me to pull the boolean value from the database)

Thanks!

Answer 1

It is always better to keep the business logic in the Controller. Breaking a paradigm for the sake of making it more simple is not a good idea.

Here is how I would do it.

Since the view for the Blog Page vs Static Page is virtually the same (with the exception of comments), I would say make them both exactly the same. Then set a flag in the database and for the page you are adding to identify if the page is static.

In the view, put a simple if (static) don't show comments statement that will not show the comments. Then there is no changing of logic and no logic required in the controller.