Helpers are used for the presentation layer. And are ideally only accessed from the views.
If you want to manipulate data in the behavior than the functionality should be in a behavior. Why is that not the case, since it sounds like you only use the tidy functionality before saving, and not before presentation? On Jan 27, 9:10 pm, brian <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm writing a helper that wraps a bunch of libTidy functionality and > will need to use this from a within a behavior's beforeSave(). I > thought models could load helpers but see now that this isn't so. Is > this new? I guess I've never done that before but I was so sure that > this was the case. Is there some way to call a helper from a behavior? > > I could change this helper to be a component, and call it like > $Model->controller->Tidy->whatever(), but that would mean that all of > the view usage would then have to go through the controller's > component. Rock, meet hard place. > > btw, I want to call Tidy from the behavior because I really would > prefer to avoid having to do it in the controller in this specific > instance. The field that holds the content which will require Tidy > maintenance may not exist in some circumstances and the behavior takes > care of deciding what needs to be done on beforeSave(). I want to > leave the controller completely out of the loop on this as it will > cause a lot of bloat, given add(), edit(), admin_add(), etc. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
