I'm working on a updated web application for a friend; built atop the CakePHP (v1.2) framework. I'm still very new to CakePHP, which is a "Rails-inspired" frameworks (one that follows convention over configuration), but like it a great deal.
I ran into a problem (sort of) tonight: I could not get the JavaScript helper's link method to output the script tag for my jQuery library, as it "should".
This expression should output the following in the head section of my HTML:
It didn't. I read in the API/Docs and verified that this method ($javascript->link( 'tofile', false )), when called from any view, is intended to output the script tag where ever the following code is located:
If I changed the second parameter from false to true, the expression output the script tag inline rather than at the location of echo $scripts_for_layout.
After further digging and experimentation, I realized I was not executing the above expression from a view. It was from a particularly handy feature of Cake when working with views: elements.
What threw me is that elements are located within the view, in terms of file structure and such. So, I assumed all elements were view templates and would act accordingly. They aren't! Long story short: if you're working in an element with CakePHP, remember they are not the same as view templates :)!
I ran into a problem (sort of) tonight: I could not get the JavaScript helper's link method to output the script tag for my jQuery library, as it "should".
<?php echo $javascript->link( 'jquery/jquery', false ); ?>
This expression should output the following in the head section of my HTML:
It didn't. I read in the API/Docs and verified that this method ($javascript->link( 'tofile', false )), when called from any view, is intended to output the script tag where ever the following code is located:
<?php echo $scripts_for_layout; ?>
If I changed the second parameter from false to true, the expression output the script tag inline rather than at the location of echo $scripts_for_layout.
After further digging and experimentation, I realized I was not executing the above expression from a view. It was from a particularly handy feature of Cake when working with views: elements.
What threw me is that elements are located within the view, in terms of file structure and such. So, I assumed all elements were view templates and would act accordingly. They aren't! Long story short: if you're working in an element with CakePHP, remember they are not the same as view templates :)!
