Re: Why using HTML->link instead of manually writing an anchor text ?

For URLs, you can use HtmlHelper::url() and for links
<a href="<?=$this->Html->url('/'); ?>">Home</a>

HtmlHelper::link() benefit is decoding and converting special HTML entities <-> characters
(when you link some code or URL)

On Sunday, July 1, 2012 6:15:00 AM UTC+2, Chetan Patel wrote:

Hello,

1) I tend to have about 3 environments my app run on (local, dev and production). Local and dev usually run in a subfolder setup and production runs on a root domain. The reason I use the helpers for links and images is because this way I don't need to worry about the base url when linking and pointing to images. It's very easy and portable.
2) For images and links, I see at least one major advantage of using helpers : those will deal with absolute-URLs and http/https protocols (for href/src that point to your website), no matter where your application is deployed.

Tx
Chetan

On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 7:08 AM, Marcelo Custódio <marcelocustodio@gmail.com> wrote:

Isn't it much slower concerning development time ?

What are the advantages of of HTML->link ?

Thanks !

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