Re: Custom Helper not loaded

needs to be a component. setting it up is very similar to a helper.
please see the link robert supplied.

On Aug 4, 8:55 pm, Robert P <shiftyrobs...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Where you're going wrong: Helpers are related to and accessed from
> within the View, not the Controller like you're trying to do.http://book.cakephp.org/view/98/Helpers
>
> In /app/views/about/index.ctp replace
>     <?php echo $text; ?>
> with
>     <?php echo $content->get('about_team'); ?>
> and you can get rid of the contents of your AboutController::index()
> function.
>
> Perhaps the functionality you're after is more suited to a Component?http://book.cakephp.org/view/63/Introduction
>
> On Aug 5, 1:24 am, Kai <kboe...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi there,
>
> > I just wrote my first helper and, sure enough, ran into some problems.
> > For some reason my helper is not being loaded. As I could not find
> > anything similar I just expect something to be done wrong in my code.
>
> > My Helper (/app/views/helpers/content.php):
> > <?php
> > class ContentHelper extends AppHelper{
> >         function get($id){
> >                 $t = $this->requestAction('texts/get/'.$id);
> >                 return $this->output($t);
> >         }}
>
> > ?>
>
> > I placed it like this into $helpers in my app_controller (/app/
> > app_controller.php):
> >         var $helpers = array('Content');
>
> > And finally in my Controller (/app/controllers/about_controller.php) I
> > use it like this:
> >         function index(){
> >                 $this->set("text", $content->get('about_team'));
> >         }
>
> > However, no matter how I twist and turn it (putting it into the
> > Controllers $helper, writing it differently) I always get the same
> > error-message:
> > Undefined variable: content [APP/controllers/about_controller.php,
> > line 7]
>
> > During this process I learned that I do not get any error-messages
> > about my Helper-File at all. I've put an PHP-Error (deleting the
> > last }) into it without complaints. Heck, I can write whatever I want
> > into $helper and do not get any errors. It seems like to me that my
> > Helper is never loaded, $helper never parsed for any custom helpers.
>
> > Does anybody have a clue what I might be doing wrong?
>
> > My Cake-Version is 1.2.3.8166.

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