CakePHP: Use a plugin helper in a plugin element

Question

Is it possible to use a plugin helper in a plugin element in CakePHP 2.x?

My directory looks like this:

/app/Plugin/
  MyPlugin/
    Controller/
      MyController.php
    View/
      Elements/
        mywidget.ctp
      Helper/
        FooHelper.php

What I want to do is to use the widget mywidget.ctp somewhere in my project. In the widget, there is a requestAction()-call to get data from the controller. This data has to be rendered using some of the methods in FooHelper. Loading it in the controller doesn't help here.

I think, it should be possible to do this by loading FooHelper in my AppController's $helpers array, but I don't want it to be loaded everywhere on the site. Is there some other possiblity? I already found a workaround with ClassRegistry::init(), but this doesn't seem to work with plugins?

Thanks for your help!

tigrang tigrang · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-13T07:59:15

You should be able to load helpers in the view via $this->Helpers->load('MyPlugin.Foo'); in 2.0+ then us it normally via $this->Foo->someMethod();

CakePHP: Use a plugin helper in a plugin element

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