I believe helper is a remnant of symfony 1.0 when it was "framework for lazy developers" or something like that.
I get the feeling that helper is slowly being phased out. For example, in Symfony 1.2, we use sfForm instead of Form helper. I'm pretty sure in Symfony 1.2, form helper isn't included by default like in Symfony 1.0. On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Jake Barnes<[email protected]> wrote: > > > I am confused. In most respects Symfony presents itself an OOP > framework which implements several best-practice design patterns, > such as MVC and Front Controller, and Symfony takes advantage of some > of the most advanced aspects of PHP 5. On the symfony-project.org > site, the first headline of body text says: > > "Symfony is a full-stack framework, a library of cohesive classes > written in PHP." > > I note the use of "cohesive classes". > > So I am puzzled: why are helpers implemented as functions, instead of > as methods of classes? The use of functions seems incongruous with the > stated aims of Symfony. It seems clunky to have such an advanced > framework that falls back to functions for some things. > > Does anyone know why this particular decision was made? > > > > > > > > > > -- Blue Horn Ltd - System Development http://bluehorn.co.nz --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony users" 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/symfony-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
