Helpers

Abstract

In the previous chapters, you capitalized on some of Cake’s built-in helpers to dramatically improve and speed up the development of some typical web application processes. Using the Ajax helper, you added some flare to the process of submitting and voting on the blog’s comments. The Form helper facilitated data handling and form submissions, and the HTML helper condensed the amount of markup you wrote by hand in the views and managed the links throughout the site to prevent any breaks. In this chapter, you will explore built-in helper functions in depth and even build a couple of your own. First, I’ll briefly discuss installing helpers.