How to restrict to load same js multiple times

Question

I am talking about the CakePHP Helper. I want to load the JS files using the helper of CakePHP.

Consider that the construction of the Helper class will load all necessary JS files.

But, I need to call that Helper in a single view multiple times. So, it's possible that the JS files will be called multiple times. I want to load those JS files only once.

Can anyone help me to cover this?

This will be my Helper script

<?php
App::uses('AppHelper', 'View/Helper');

/**
 * @alias Mathjax Class for helper
 * @description This class is to define helper in cakephp.
 */
class MathjaxHelper extends AppHelper {

    /*
     * Constructor of the class.
     */
    function __construct(View $View, $settings = array()) {
        parent::__construct($View, $settings);
        //login to load all necessary JS files.
    }

    function create() {
        //this function will return the helper html
    }

}

AD7six · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-02 13:39:26Z

4

Use HtmlHelper::script

If you use HtmlHelper::script method, with 'inline' => false, to load the js files they will by default be included once.

Layout file

To use this method, ensure that in the layout file the $scripts_for_layout variable is echoed out. E.g.:

<html>
    <head>
        ...
    </head>
    <body>
        ...

        <?php echo $scripts_for_layout ?>
    </body> 
</html>

View files

In your views, elements or helpers - simply ensure the script method is called using the inline parameter:

<?php $this->Html->script('my', array('inline' => false)); ?>

In this way it doesn't matter how often you call the script method with a given js file - it will appear in the resultant html output only once.

answered May 2, 2014 at 13:39

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2 Comments

noslone Over a year ago

You can also use $options['once'] as per documentation

AD7six Over a year ago

True, but that's only relevant if js scripts are dumped inline in a view file (which - shouldn't be the case and isn't something I encourage).

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