These tags are so simple, there's no need to use the helper. Drop the helper 
altogether and do it with straightforward html. There's little benefit in using 
the helper for these - in fact you are slowing your site down by using it. Then 
you have complete control.

Jeremy Burns
Class Outfit

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On 18 Sep 2010, at 05:44, Evan R. Murphy wrote:

> I really like using CakePHP's HtmlHelper, except that it's so verbose.
> I'd love to be able to write
> 
> div('header',
>  tag('ul',
>    tag('li', link('Home', '/')),
>    aa('class', 'nav')))
> 
> instead of
> 
> $html->div('header',
>  $html->tag('ul',
>    $html->tag('li', $html->link('Home', '/')),
>    aa('class', 'nav')))
> 
> How can I make this happen? (It's ok with me if functions like div,
> tag and link are global. I'm willing to risk naming conflicts for this
> extra convenience.)
> 
> Thanks,
> Evan
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