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POIs it better to manipulate $data for the AppHelper or use conditions to parse $data in it?
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copied!<p>In these days I thought on how to work better with <code>AppHelper</code>s in <code>CakePHP</code>. I thought to use the <code>AppHelper</code> to make links and other html elements consistent depending by the context i need, for example, for <code>users</code> I have the method</p> <pre><code>$this->AppUser->profile($data, $options, $attributes); </code></pre> <p>this method returns a link styled for the users, with a specific css classes, maybe something line this:</p> <pre><code><a class="user female" href="http://url/profiles/username">Username</a> </code></pre> <p>My problem is the data is structured differently by the situation, in some case I have an array like this:</p> <pre><code>$data['User']['id'] $data['User']['username'] $data['Profile']['user_id'] $data['Profile']['sex'] $data['Profile']['other'] </code></pre> <p>And in some other cases, with different queries and different entities I have this:</p> <pre><code>$data['User']['id'] $data['User']['username'] $data['User']['Profile']['user_id'] $data['User']['Profile']['sex'] $data['User']['Profile']['other'] </code></pre> <p>So I would like to understand if I missing something in the data hierarchy because it should be always structured in the same way?</p> <p>And so should I to send data to the Helper always structured in the same way?</p> <p>Should I let the helper parse the data depending by the situation, so with conditions to find where the data is?</p>

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