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hellosheikh
hellosheikh

Reputation: 3015

Timezone helper in Cakephp

I'm trying to populate the select box with countries' timezones. I have seen examples and answers here, but nothing works out for me. I am working on Cakephp 2.3.

My timeZone helper class is in this directory App/View/Helper/TimeZoneHelper.php.

Here is my controller:

   class TimeZoneController extends AppController{

    public function index(){
    $helpers = array('TimeZoneHelper');


  }

 }

my view

  <?php

  echo $timezone->select('timezone');
  ?>

It isn't working, and I don't know how it works because I have never used this functionality before.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 363

Answers (2)

mark
mark

Reputation: 21743

You are working with cake2.x. But you are using 1.x syntax. The correct syntax for 2.x is:

echo $this->Timezone->select('timezone');

(instead of $timezone-select)

Its also in the documentation by the way: http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/views/helpers.html#using-helpers

Upvotes: 1

Zakir Hyder
Zakir Hyder

Reputation: 617

When you want to add helper in action you need to use following code

class TimeZoneController extends AppController{
    public function index(){
     $this->helpers[] = 'TimeZoneHelper';
    }
}

If you want the helper to available to all the action 

class TimeZoneController extends AppController{
    public $helpers = array('TimeZoneHelper');
    public function index(){
    }
}

If you want the helper to be available to all controllers then you need to add it to /app/Controller/AppController.php 

class AppController extends Controller{
    public $helpers = array('TimeZoneHelper');
}

Upvotes: 0

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