I think it has more to do with belt and braces than laziness. I always add the controller because I want to be sure it goes where I want it to go, rather than letting Cake (potentially) decide for me.
Jeremy Burns Class Outfit http://www.classoutfit.com On 1 Nov 2011, at 09:21, WebbedIT wrote: > It's not lazyness per se, both are completely valid and it's up to you > to decide which to use in what circumstances. If you are 100% certain > that the view containing the link will only ever be called from a > certain controller, then you do not need to include that controller in > the url array as the controller being used at the time will be > inserted. > > There are many different ways to specify arguments/params for most > functions ... just learn all of those ways and use the right one for > you in the right circumstances. > > HTH, Paul > > On Oct 31, 8:12 pm, "Yves S. Garret" <yoursurrogate...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> I got a pet peeve about being 'lazy' :-) . Too often it leaves vague code >> that some poor soul needs to update years after the fact, with little >> understanding of what's going on. >> >> I'll specify the exact controller. >> >> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 3:41 PM, euromark <dereurom...@googlemail.com>wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> both will work exactly the same WITHIN the controller >>> you may leave it out in this case. >>> its always good practice to specify the controller, as well, though. >> >>> but if you are outside of this controller you MUST specify it >>> so better include it everywhere. especially if you move code around >>> (copy and paste) >>> or if you make it an element (which could be included in any other >>> view/controller/layout. >> >>> so better safe than sry :) >>> we programmers are just lazy sometimes >> >>> On 31 Okt., 20:28, "Yves S. Garret" <yoursurrogate...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> I just noticed this in the cakephp book. In the first example, you have >>>> the following line(s) in index.ctp: >> >>>> http://book.cakephp.org/view/1536/Creating-Post-Views >> >>>> <?php echo $this->Html->link($post['Post']['title'], array('controller' >>> => >>>> 'posts', 'action' => 'view', $post['Post']['id'])); ?> <--- this is the >>>> first example of a view >> >>>> http://book.cakephp.org/view/1540/Editing-Posts >> >>>> <?php echo $this->Html->link($post['Post']['title'], array('action' => >>>> 'view', $post['Post']['id']));?> <--- this is a later example, when >>> you're >>>> editing the post. >> >>>> The question is about this line: 'controller' => 'posts' <--- this >>> doesn't >>>> seem to affect the way info is posted. index.ctp is already tied to the >>>> index method in the PostsController, so what role does this play? >> >>> -- >>> Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials >>> http://tv.cakephp.org >>> Check out the new CakePHP Questions sitehttp://ask.cakephp.organd help >>> others with their CakePHP related questions. >> >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group >>> athttp://groups.google.com/group/cake-php > > -- > Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials > http://tv.cakephp.org > Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help > others with their CakePHP related questions. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
