Tips and Tricks: Allowing Global Definition of Components and Helpers in CakePHP

I am starting to create my layouts and pages. But I encountered this problem (much to my annoyance. How much errors could I take?):

Notice (8): Undefined variable: javascript [APP/views/layouts/default.ctp, line 14]

I remembered encountering this before on my localhost development. So I browsed my local files and see that I created an app_controller.php inside app/controllers/

The controller just have these codes:

<?php

class AppController extends Controller {

  var $helpers = array(‘Html’, ‘Form’, ‘Ajax’, ‘Javascript’, ‘Time”);

  var $components = array(‘Session’); 

  }

?>

which just enables you to allow the use of the following helpers and components all throughout your cakePHP application without redefining these on individual controllers.

so. ciao! n

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