#these helper are meant to not be needed as controller methods. Use ControllerHelpers instead
# the render :partial in 3.1 doesn't work the same when coming from a helper module as when defined with helper_method. 
module ViewHelpers
  def on_if_current(path)
    if path == request.fullpath
      'on'
    end
  end
  def on_if_controller(c)
    if params[:controller] == c.to_s 
      'on'
    end
  end
  def tr(d)
  # Quick array to table row.
  # Takes an array and creates a table row (tr) with each element of the array
  # occupying one column (td).
    o = "<tr>\n"
    d.each do |x|
      o << "\t<td>#{x}</td>\n"
    end
    o << "</tr>\n"
    o
  end
  def titled_link_to(resource)
    link_to(resource.name.titleize, send("#{resource.class.to_s.underscore}_path", resource), :title =>  "View Full #{resource.class.to_s.titleize} Details for #{h resource.name.titleize}")
  end
  def short_text(st, len=100)
    raw truncate( strip_tags( raw(st)), :length=>len)
  end
  def row_toggle
    cycle('a','b')
  end
  def date(date, format=:default)
    #ref: http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/2255
    formats = {
      :default   => "%b %d, %Y",
      :numbers   => "%m-%d-%y",
      :date_time => "%b %d, %Y %I:%M %p",
      :just_time => "%I:%M %p",
    }
    date.strftime(formats[format])
  end
  def clear
    "<br style='clear:both'/>".html_safe
  end
    

  # -----------  SCAFFOLD --------------
  def form_errors_helper
    render :partial => 'pixelearth_base/admin/form_errors'
  end
  def admin_buttons
    render :partial => 'pixelearth_base/admin/admin_buttons'
  end
  def show_edit_destroy(resource)
    render(:partial => 'pixelearth_base/admin/show_edit_destroy', :locals => {:resource => resource})
  end
  def link_to_destroy
    raw link_to('destroy', @resource, :confirm => 'Are you sure you want to remove this?', :method => :delete, :title => 'remove permanently')
  end
  def paginate(collection)
    render :partial => 'pixelearth_base/pagination.html.haml', :locals => { :collection => collection }
  end
  
end