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    <p>I'm trying to understand the concept of "Fat" on models vs "skinny" on controllers and from what I've been discussing I have the following example (this is taken from a freenode discussion):</p> <p>Q: On MVC paradigm, its said Fat models, skinny controllers. I'm here thinking, If I have lots of methods (on controller) that uses just a few abstract methods to CRUD (on model), am I creating a fat controller instead of a model ? Or they say, fat model, refearing in what is returned and not typed ? that's something I've never understood =) Any comments are appreciated! Thanks a lot</p> <p>OBS1: I'm not doing whats ment by the model, in the controller, I just have methods that control whats going to the model</p> <p>OBS2: let's say "checkIfEmailExists()", has "john@hotmail.com", as a parameters. This method will, get the return from the model method that querys if this param exist in table, return boolean. If is 0, "checkIFemailExists()" will call a diferent model method, this one, he's just another abstract method, that performs Update operation.</p> <p>OBS3: The "checkIfEmailExists()", isnt just a controller ? He's not actually performing any CRUD, he's just comparing values etc. That's whats confusing me, because in my head this is a controller :S</p> <p>Notes: I guess this is not the best example, since saying "check if something exists",sounds like a query my table operation</p> <p>Q2:just one more question, so, let's say I've got a view form, from where that email address parameter is sent from. Are you saying the view goes directly to the model ?</p> <p>Q3:Shouldn't the controller act between them ? thats the paradigm</p> <p>FINAL NOTE: The discussion ended, saying that I'm wrong, wish is ok (i'm learning). But, so, whats the right answers for Q2 and Q3 ?</p> <p>Thanks for your atention</p>
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    1. COJust an observation: you're much more likely to get useful answers if you ask short, well-organized, to-the-point questions rather than just writing down everything that comes to your mind on the subject.
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