model access from layout file in CakePHP

Submitted by Derick Ng on 6 September 2009 - 6:47am

I am working on a CMS using CakePHP and I want to create a dynamic menu which is the same on all the pages the user can access. So I figured out to create in the layout (since it shared among so many pages and view) but I don't seem to know how to acces the model and get the data from the database to construct the menu. any help is appreciated.