Comments on: How to use a helper in a controller

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:20:47 +0000

@Brian: I’m glad to hear this article was helpful for you!

By: Brian Henk

Brian Henk — Tue, 05 May 2009 19:56:12 +0000

Thanks again for the help. I agree with the original premise of helpers though – you shouldn’t be doing anything that the user sees in the controller (at least not finally).

The problem for me came in the form of AJAX requests, which forwarded some controller generated JSON.

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 09:50:54 +0000

@rrd: Thanks for the link!

By: rrd

rrd — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 17:01:46 +0000

for the english version check this link:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fm3nt0r.de%2Fblog%2F2007%2F08%2F12%2Fcakephp-helpercomponent%2F&sl=de&tl=en

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:29:21 +0000

@maulana: Cool to hear that :) And yes, it would be useful to have global helpers.

Just curious, is your CMS realized with Cake?

By: maulana

maulana — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:27:10 +0000

Damn, you save my life with this article, and I agree with bparise, global helper will be very helpful. Thanks Daniel

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 13:31:55 +0000

@mjamesd: Thanks for the hint, it is now fixed in the article!

By: mjamesd

mjamesd — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:44:22 +0000

In CakePHP 1.2, “loadHelper(‘NameOfHelper’)” is depreciated. Use “App::import(‘Helper’,'NameOfHelper’)” instead.

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 06:43:39 +0000

@Yevgeny: Yes, that’s a possible solution to avoid creating too many very simple views.

Personally, I have used a different approach to avoid such views. I created a one simple view with only one statement:

This view I rendered then from all places where I needed such a simple view.

By: Yevgeny Tomenko

Yevgeny Tomenko — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:36:55 +0000

@cakebaker,
You does not disturb when you use $this->Session->setFlash in your controller.
For example you write ajax driven application and one of your action just doing something and without refresh screen show text result. Will you create view with two line of code
replace_html(‘#message’,$message); ?>
effect(‘#message’,'Highlight’,array(‘duration’=>2, ’startcolor’=>’#7777ff’)); ?>

and use $this->set(‘message’, __(’some_msg’,true)); in your controller.
And if you have many such views you will not DRY.
But you can create helper Msg with function
showMessage ($message) {
$this->Page->replace_html(‘#message’,$message); ?>
$this->Page->effect(‘#message’,'Highlight’,array(‘duration’=>2, ’startcolor’=>’#7777ff’));
}
and use this helper from controller like this:
$this->Msg->showMessage(‘ok’);
exit;