how to read cookie value in cakephp view file

Question

in this i write the cookie value in controller file. i wanna read that cookie value in view file than how it possible.

Answer 1

Use Cookie components in AppController:

$components = array('Cookie');

Define following in AppController's beforeFilter():

$this->set('cookieHelper', $this->Cookie);

So that you could use it in view:

$cookieHelper->read('something');