Controller inheritance in Cake PHP?

Question

Has anyone attempted this? Is it possible, and if so, what kind of problems will I run into if I try to accomplish it?

Answer 1

If you goal is to share logic between controllers:

• add the logic to the AppController to share it with all the controllers in your app.

• make a component and add that to $this->components for the controllers you want to share it.

Adding additional inheritance between controllers should only be concidered as a last resort, as you have to pay extra attention to how components and helpers are handled. E.g. you must manually merge $this->components & $this->helpers with the AppController and the controller you are inheriting from.