Yip, it's all about using wrapper functions so when you want to suddenly treat those tags differently you change one function and that function instantly starts doing as you want.
It's all about tradeofffs - if you believe that tag and your routes are never going to change then hard coding <a> tags may be a good solution, for now I stick with Html::link() [mostly] HTH, Paul @phpMagpie On Sep 12, 11:23 am, Zaky Katalan-Ezra <[email protected]> wrote: > Theoretically if the <a> tag spec will change you will be able to change it > in one place. > For example if you used <embed> or <object> tag and you want to change this > to <audio> tag to be more html5 > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Miles J <[email protected]> wrote: > > I actually posted a blog post about this: > > >http://milesj.me/blog/read/end-html-helper > > > On Sep 11, 1:28 am, elija <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thank you. That makes sense and now I don't have to learn it the hard > > > way. > > > > On Sep 11, 8:30 am, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Sep 11, 2011, at 02:29, elija wrote: > > > > > > Yes it is readable and concise but a simple <a href="..... " > is > > even > > > > > easier to read and doesn't use PHP to generate a link. What I was > > > > > actually wondering was is there any advantage in CakePHP to using the > > > > > HTML Helper rather than just writing HTML in a view? > > > > > The advantage of using PHP to generate the links is that if you change > > how your routes are arranged, you don't then also have to update all your > > links in your views. > > > -- > > Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials > >http://tv.cakephp.org > > Check out the new CakePHP Questions sitehttp://ask.cakephp.organd help > > others with their CakePHP related questions. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/cake-php > > -- > Regards, > Zaky Katalan-Ezra > QA Administratorwww.IGeneriX.com > Sites.IGeneriX.com > 054-7762312 -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
