Hi all!

I have an app which handle multiples entities and each entity (table) has an order column so user can order things with drag & drop.

To avoid duplicate methods in each controller, I have made a global method in the Base Controller named updateOrder. I use a javascript method to post datas

Is it a good practice to create a global method in the base controller ? What do you think ?

Thanks

protected function updateOrder(){

    // Set the post vars
    $type = Input::get('type'); // get the table name for update
    parse_str(Input::get('order'),$order); // get the order string serialize by sortable function

    $i = 1;
    foreach($order[$type] as $order){

        DB::update("UPDATE `$type` SET `order` = ? WHERE `id` = ?",[$i,$order]);

        $i++;
    }

    return Response::json(array(
            'success' => true,
            'message' => 'Mise à jour de l\'ordre des éléments réussie',
            200
    ));
}