Call on controller from another

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Hi,

I’m building my first CakePHP 5 app and have run into what I’m sure is a very simple problem.

In Cake 4 I often call a method in one controller from another - I will typically set up a utility controller for various formatting tasks etc and then call it from other controllers.

To do this I just used (new UtilitiesController())->aMethod($args) which worked perfectly.

In Cake 5 I can’t get this to work, looking at the error message I got when I first tried to use this it seems I need to pass the request in as an argument, so I tried

(new UtilitiesController($this->request))->aMethod($args)

Which seemed to access the third party controller OK, except the function did not work correctly, and when I tested it by calling the same function directly from the view layer it worked fine, so I think there is something wrong with how I am trying to access the 3rd party method.

Thanks

Simon

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Controllers are not meant to be created by you manually.

What you are looking for is called a utility/service class to share logic between your controllers or other parts of your app.

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3E_UdH1XeE

In combination with Dependency Injection you can inject your service class into any controller action and re-use that logic

I also showcase this in my latest workshop