Re: What are your personal conventions for Helper names and using helper classes?

2011-01-24 Thread connrs
Thanks euromark. You, and the other cakers below confirmed that I’m not insane. The most important thing I’ve gleaned from this thread is that I really need to start following the roadmap (and migration guides) for 2 and beyond to get a better idea of the direction the development team are

Re: What are your personal conventions for Helper names and using helper classes?

2011-01-24 Thread connrs
That’s a neat little solution. I always enjoy getting dirty forking the libs/ directory myself. -- 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

Re: What are your personal conventions for Helper names and using helper classes?

2011-01-22 Thread clearflysyst...@googlemail.com
I have to agree $this-Helper. It makes more sense when reading your code that you're referencing a Helper Class and not a local variable you have set somewhere else in your code. Also i quite often have for loops where i'm building up a html string for output and $html would be the logical

Re: What are your personal conventions for Helper names and using helper classes?

2011-01-22 Thread euromark
with a little hack you can already disable $html for the object... http://www.dereuromark.de/2010/09/12/neccessary-core-hacks-cake-1-3/ On 22 Jan., 16:31, clearflysyst...@googlemail.com clearflysyst...@googlemail.com wrote: I have to agree $this-Helper. It makes more sense when reading your

Re: What are your personal conventions for Helper names and using helper classes?

2011-01-22 Thread David Kullmann
Connrs: It is best practice to use $this-Helper and I believe you may run into some issues if you don't do it with some helpers in Cake1.3.x. -DK On Jan 21, 9:53 am, connrs shu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys I suppose this is my first ever post on any CakePHP related forum/group so get the

Re: What are your personal conventions for Helper names and using helper classes?

2011-01-21 Thread euromark
of course 100% $this-Helper a) cleaner b) fit for 2.0 :) On 21 Jan., 15:53, connrs shu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys I suppose this is my first ever post on any CakePHP related forum/group so get the unicorns and badger porn out. I've been actively using CakePHP since 1.1 and have generally

What are your personal conventions for Helper names and using helper classes?

2011-01-21 Thread connrs
Hi guys I suppose this is my first ever post on any CakePHP related forum/group so get the unicorns and badger porn out. I've been actively using CakePHP since 1.1 and have generally beaten and thrashed the framework into doing what I liked until progressively it has become the shiny framework