Re: Error in the manual?

Well of course you cant use a helper in a controller. Helpers are used
in views ONLY. You define it in the controller, which in turn passes
it down to the views.

On Dec 1, 9:18 am, drbuzasi <drbuz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This page (http://book.cakephp.org/view/53/components-helpers-and-
> uses) begins with the following text:
> "The next most often used controller attributes tell CakePHP what
> helpers, components, and models you'll be using in conjunction with
> the current controller. Using these attributes make these MVC classes
> available to the controller as a class variable ($this->ModelName, for
> example)."
>
> Maybe i'm wrong but i think helpers given by the $helpers attribute
> ain't available as class variables ($this->HelperName) as decribed in
> the 2nd sentence. At least not in version 1.2.5. So if you want to
> access your selt defined 'OwnHelper' i.e. in a controller it's not a
> good idea to set
>
> $helpers = array('OwnHelper');
>
> as decribed there but rather have to
>
> App::import('Helper', 'OwnHelper');
>
> it and then assign to the desired class variable:
>
> $this->Own = new OwnHelper;
>
> This doesn't happen automatically. Am i right or am i misunderstanding
> something?

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