Instantiating a vendor class in class constructor

Question

In my CakePHP 2 application I have such vendor. I need to create an instance of this vendor class inside my controller class. So I will use that instance inside my controller\'s

Answer 1

You need to learn about scope. You have initialised a variable in the beforeFilter() scope and then trying to use it in the showMe scope. The two are completely different.

You can make a variable that is scoped to the entire class, normally called a property...

function beforeFilter() {
   $this->fancyVendor = new fancyVendor();
   $this->fancyVendor->setValue("12");
}

function showMe() {
   echo $this->fancyVendor->getValue();
}

Another point to note is that you can use the App::uses() method to load the class. According to your naming it would work. (class is lazy loaded this way)

App::uses('fancyVendor', 'Vendor');