Question

I have finally quit the idea of learning Zend and instead i find CakePHP and CodeIgniter to be very impressive and simple to understand rather than cramming the strange global functions and configuration of index.php. Anyways, i wanted to ask you that CakePHP even spits out Html in sort of php language like :-

<?= $html->css('default'); ?>

Do i have to necessarily use this syntax only? or can i use plain old HTML’s link tag to load my stylesheet? If i have to strictly follow these rules only, then how shall i use JQuery and such things in CakePHP?

Thanks in advance 🙂

Answer 1

You can use plain html in .ctp files. However using the helpers provided by CakePHP will make your life a lot easier.

As for using JavaScript (like jquery)

echo $javascript->link('scriptfile'); 

Take a look at the cake book for more info:

http://book.cakephp.org/view/206/Inserting-Well-Formatted-elements

http://book.cakephp.org/view/349/Methods