Re: Why specify the controller in the view?

I think it has more to do with belt and braces than laziness. I always add the controller because I want to be sure it goes where I want it to go, rather than letting Cake (potentially) decide for me.

Jeremy Burns

Class Outfit

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On 1 Nov 2011, at 09:21, WebbedIT wrote:

It's not lazyness per se, both are completely valid and it's up to you
to decide which to use in what circumstances.  If you are 100% certain
that the view containing the link will only ever be called from a
certain controller, then you do not need to include that controller in
the url array as the controller being used at the time will be
inserted.

There are many different ways to specify arguments/params for most
functions ... just learn all of those ways and use the right one for
you in the right circumstances.

HTH, Paul

On Oct 31, 8:12 pm, "Yves S. Garret" <yoursurrogate...@gmail.com>
wrote:

I got a pet peeve about being 'lazy' :-) .  Too often it leaves vague code

that some poor soul needs to update years after the fact, with little

understanding of what's going on.

I'll specify the exact controller.

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 3:41 PM, euromark <dereurom...@googlemail.com>wrote:

both will work exactly the same WITHIN the controller

you may leave it out in this case.

its always good practice to specify the controller, as well, though.

but if you are outside of this controller you MUST specify it

so better include it everywhere. especially if you move code around

(copy and paste)

or if you make it an element (which could be included in any other

view/controller/layout.

so better safe than sry :)

we programmers are just lazy sometimes

On 31 Okt., 20:28, "Yves S. Garret" <yoursurrogate...@gmail.com>

wrote:

I just noticed this in the cakephp book.  In the first example, you have

the following line(s) in index.ctp:

http://book.cakephp.org/view/1536/Creating-Post-Views

<?php echo $this->Html->link($post['Post']['title'], array('controller'

=>

'posts', 'action' => 'view', $post['Post']['id'])); ?> <--- this is the

first example of a view

http://book.cakephp.org/view/1540/Editing-Posts

<?php echo $this->Html->link($post['Post']['title'], array('action' =>

'view', $post['Post']['id']));?>  <--- this is a later example, when

you're

editing the post.

The question is about this line: 'controller' => 'posts' <--- this

doesn't

seem to affect the way info is posted.  index.ctp is already tied to the

index method in the PostsController, so what role does this play?

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