Why not use a view helper for this instead? This is exactly what they are made for.
Regards, Ryan Rose http://www.digiwize.com On Feb 8, 5:49 am, "Károly Kiripolszky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi ppl! > > I discovered that it is possible to pass functions defined in the > controller to the view. However I must prefix the $this->set() > statement with an @ symbol or else PHP claims that there's and > undefined constant in the view at the line you try to call it. For > example I define my title formatting function in the controller to > keep the view clean as possible: > > -- > function some_action() > { > // ... some code here ... > > // function for title formatting > function tf($s) > { > $ret = ""; > $s = str_replace("_", " ", $s); > for ($i = 0; $i < strlen($s); $i++) > { > $ucase = false; > if ($i == 0) > $ucase = true; > else > if ($s[$i-1] == " " or $s[$i-1] == "-") > $ucase = true; > $ret .= $ucase ? strtoupper($s[$i]) : $s[$i]; > } > return $ret; > } > > // ... some more code ... > > @$this->set("tf", tf);} > > --- > > I need this because in an image gallery gallery names come from folder > names and so I need to convert strings like "jean-paul_belmondo" to > "Jean-Paul Belmondo" to display it to the user. So in the view I use > the tf() function like tf($gallery_name). Nevertheless I must suppress > the output of $this->set() or else I got an undefined constant notice. > I wonder why PHP sends a notice when otherwise the function is > functioning. :) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
