In ,Chapter 2Developing Our Application, we briefly looked at the application logic in the actions class. We have now looked at the business logic—creating a custom query, calling this function, and then passing the results to the template so that we can display the information. Going back into the menuAction class in apps/frontend/modules/menu/actions/actions.class.php, append the index action with the following:
/**
* Executes index action
*
*/
public function executeIndex()
{
//Get all out all of the shakes
$this->milkshakeArray = MilkShakePeer::getAllShakes();
return sfView::SUCCESS;
}
Looking at this code snippet, we make a call to our MilkShakePeer model and use our static function getAllShakes(). As all the peer functions provide static methods, we use the scope resolution operator (::) to access our static function.
When giving the template access to variables, you must use $this as Symfony uses PHP magic functions widely. Assigning variables...