Cake PHP and easyui data grid

Hi all,
I’m new to cake php, I am trying to intergrate cakephp and easyui data grid. I followed a tutorial for this at

and I can see the data coming back from the database, but as soon as it hits the view page I get an error message. What is strange is that it is a message about cake not being able to find the Helper.php, but I verified and the file exists in the correct path.

Error from the CakePHP debugger

2018-03-12 15:36:11 Warning (512): Method Cake\View\Helper\HtmlHelper::url does not exist in [/home2/usaestil/public_html/myerp/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/View/Helper.php, line 139] Request URL: /users Client IP: 173.251.14.146 Trace: Cake\Error\BaseErrorHandler::handleError() - CORE/src/Error/BaseErrorHandler.php, line 153 Cake\View\Helper::__call() - CORE/src/View/Helper.php, line 139 Cake\View\Helper\HtmlHelper::url() - APP/Template/Users/index.ctp, line 4 include - APP/Template/Users/index.ctp, line 4 Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1025 Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 986 Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 610 Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 623 Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 125 Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 93 Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 78 Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65 Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 59 Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65 Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88 Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65 Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 92 Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65 DebugKit\Middleware\DebugKitMiddleware::__invoke() - ROOT/vendor/cakephp/debug_kit/src/Middleware/DebugKitMiddleware.php, line 52 Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65 Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51 Cake\Http\Server::run() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 80 [main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 37

Error from google’s developer tools.
$(’#dg’).datagrid({
url: '

Warning (512): Method Cake\View\Helper\HtmlHelper::url does not exist [CORE/src/View/Helper.php, line 139]
Code Context
    public function __call($method$params)
    {
        trigger_error(sprintf(‘Method %1$s::%2$s does not exist’get_class($this), $method), E_USER_WARNING);
$method = ‘url’
$params = [

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you.