How to call cell in helper in cakephp 3?

Question

I need to call cell methods in my helper. I try this in my helper.

$cell = $this->cell('Inbox::expanded');

But it does not work. How can I do this?

Answer 1

There are two ways of doing this. The first one is to use the view instance inside the helper to render the cell:

$cell = $this->_View->cell('Inbox::expanded');

The other way is to add the CellTrait to your helper:

class MyHelper extends Helper {
    use Cake\View\CellTrait;

    public function aMethod() {
        $cell = $this->cell('Inbox::expanded');
    }
}