Comments on: Using a helper inside another helper

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:08:59 +0000

@Rodrigo: To avoid loading the helper for the entire helper class, you can use the approach I posted as answer to @enrique's comment.

By: Rodrigo Silveira

Rodrigo Silveira — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:59:14 +0000

I tried what @enrique mentioned, since that method works on controllers just fine. But the only way I can get it to work is by using the original method mentioned in this post, which is by importing the helper to the entire helper class.

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Mon, 30 May 2011 14:18:29 +0000

@Bill: You are welcome :)

By: Bill Tetley

Bill Tetley — Thu, 26 May 2011 20:56:11 +0000

Thanks, I’ve been trying to figure out how to do this for a few hours already.

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 14:15:22 +0000

@brendan: You are welcome :)

By: brendan

brendan — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 08:46:00 +0000

thanks for this, so simple but took ages to get this info, c’est la cake

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:21:32 +0000

@enrique: Thanks for your comment! You could use something like:


function getTheLink() {
    App::import('Helper', 'Html');
    $this->Html = new HtmlHelper();

    return $this->Html->link('The link', '/');
}

And depending on the helper you want to load you have to do some initializations. However, if possible, I would avoid this approach and use what I described in the article ;-)

By: enrique

enrique — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:52:19 +0000

Hi, thanks for the article!

Is it possible to request a helper inside a helper’s method? Same as you would do in a controller’s action instead of the entire controller?

function getTheLink() {
var $helpers[] = ‘Html’;

return $this->Html->link(‘The link’, ‘/’);
}

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:05:49 +0000

@Dan: I’m glad this article was helpful for you, and happy baking!

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:45:29 +0000

Thanks for posting this. It was exactly what I was looking for as I wasn’t quite sure how to access a helper from within a helper.