Re: Where to save utility routines

2012-03-24 Thread Kosmo
I now had The Problem to use routines in Controllers as well as in Shells. I therefor recently moved those objects into the libs-directory. That is a Good Place for those rather static routines. Best, Andreas On 23 Mrz., 17:54, Graham graham.h.jo...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you - that answers my

Re: Where to save utility routines

2012-03-23 Thread Graham
Thank you - that answers my question perfectly. At the moment I only need to use it in views so a Helper routine addresses the need but thanks for the tip if I need to use it elsewhere. Cheers Gj On Wednesday, 21 March 2012 19:01:20 UTC, Graham wrote: Dear all, still new to CakePHP but

Re: Where to save utility routines

2012-03-22 Thread Miles J
If you also need to use it outside of the view, you can just create a static class and include it, then use the methods statically in the view. SomeClass::staticMethod(). On Wednesday, March 21, 2012 12:01:20 PM UTC-7, Graham wrote: Dear all, still new to CakePHP but learning all the time.

Re: Where to save utility routines

2012-03-21 Thread thatsgreat2345
I would recommend turning it into a helper, check the cakephp book about helpers, and then you can add it to the AppController or into specific controllers that you want. On Wednesday, March 21, 2012 12:01:20 PM UTC-7, Graham wrote: Dear all, still new to CakePHP but learning all the time.