CakePHP View including other views

Question

I have a CakePHP application that in some moment will show a view with product media (pictures or videos) I want to know if, there is someway to include another view that threat

Answer 1

In your controller (in this example the posts controller).

function something() {
    return $this->Post->find('all');
}

In your elements directory (app/views/element) create a file called posts.ctp.

In posts.ctp:

$posts = $this->requestAction('posts/something'); 
foreach($posts as $post): 
    echo $post['Post']['title']; 
endforeach; 

Then in your view:

element('posts'); ?>

This is mostly taken from the CakePHP book here: Creating Reusable Elements with requestAction

I do believe that using requestAction is quite expensive, so you will want to look into caching.