Question

Id like to pass buttons from the cakePHP 2 (note: I’m using Twitter Bootstrap 2.2.1) into an Element in app/View/Elements/Toolbar.ctp

<div class="actions">
<?php echo $this->Html->link(__('New User'), array('action' => 'add'), array('class' => 'btn btn-small',)); ?>
</div>

Above is an example of the button.
Depending on the view, I’d like to pass in different Buttons with different actions.
How do I do that? With Elements, Blocks, requestaction() or what?

Answer 1

The cakephp way doing would look like this

In view

<?= $this->element('toolbar', array('button' => $button_type)) ?>

in element there will be variable called $button available. Note that $button_type variable is also available in element.

That should do it