On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Jacob Coby<jc...@portallabs.com> wrote: > > On Sep 8, 2009, at 9:52 AM, Szabolcs Heilig wrote: > >> After reading that i'm imagining a helper system where symfony form >> helpers, >> link helpers, etc will be in helper classes. These classes can be >> inherited >> by AJAX, Lightbox link helper classes and use and extend codebase >> of the basic >> link helpers, etc. >> In this case you only have to change the class before the link_to() >> helper >> method to open your link in a lightbox instead. >> >> I think it will be a big win against the loss of longer helper calls >> in the template code. > > How is changing sfUrl::link_to() to myUrl::link_to() any better than > changing link_to() to my_link_to()? It's the same amount of work and > the same amount of testing. It's just that one has been wrapped in > class boilerplate to namespace it. > > Helpers are part of the view, and are by definition orthogonal to the > controller. They will need to go through the same gyrations to access > request/response objects or the context or the controller whether in a > class or not. > > Changing helpers to be based on classes has been brought up several > times in the past. I've not seen any compelling arguments as to /why/ > using classes for helpers is better. It just means more typing.
What about the above idea of extending classes? You could have (partial) code reuse which would be very useful, where this is not easily done right now (because you have to manually load the base helper in your helper before you call it). Anyway, I was *not* saying symfony helpers will be that way, I was only saying I was doing it that way for my custom helpers (since I personally prefer that approach). -- Stefan Koopmanschap Symfony Community Manager stefan.koopmansc...@symfony-project.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony users" group. To post to this group, send email to symfony-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to symfony-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
