Your view is there to produce HTML not manipulate data (other than to display them). The proper MVC way is to do it in the controller and just pass the required data to the view to render it.
On Wednesday, June 12, 2013 9:06:23 PM UTC+3, David Suna wrote: > > I am using CakePHP 1.3. I have a helper which prints out the navigation > menus. Depending on which top level menu is selected the appropriate sub > menu is displayed. I want to be able to know on the next page view which > menu / sub menu was previously displayed. I thought to accomplish this by > writing a session variable from my helper. However, I am getting the error > that session data cannot be written from a view. Can anyone suggest an > alternative way of accomplishing this? > > I don't really understand why, if I can read Session information in the > view, am I not able to write Session information in a view. > > Pointers to appropriate resources or hints and tricks would also be > appreciated. > > Thanks. > -- Like Us on FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/CakePHP Find us on Twitter http://twitter.com/CakePHP --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
