After having a quick chat with gwoo, I figured it out.
Just add one line to my component: $this->controller->params['auth'] =
$this;
Then the component is available to use in the helper via $this-
>params['auth'].
Not sure it's the proper way or not, but at least it works.
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Say, I have a component named Auth to check if the current logged in
user is able to perform an action or not. Now I want to write a helper
function that does the same as $html->link, but only printing the link
after making sure that the user is able to perform the action.
It'll be something like
