Suggestion for helper function: anchor_image

[eluser]t'mo[/eluser]
[quote author="xwero" date="1211487699"]What if the designer just wants to use a border, with your solution he has to write the tags himself.
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Yes; like I said, what I've come up with is specific to my current project, and "the designer" (/me) doesn't need borders...but others might. However, and it sounds like you agree, the problem of making hyperlinks that consist of images rather than text is common, and I think solution in the core would be very nice to have (and though none of my code can be salvaged, the name "anchor_image" would be great). Also, if this helper were in the core, it should also handle (arrays of) attributes (for both the A and the IMG).

[quote author="xwero" date="1211487699"]
CI's url_helper checks if the function exists because it can be extended. You cant extend the MY_url_helper.php file. The extending of the helpers differs from extending classes where the methods get overloaded. For the helpers the extended file gets loaded first.[/quote]

Thanks for explaining that. You killed two birds with one stone in fact, saving me from making another post. I was wondering why "my_url_helper.php" wasn't loading when I asked only for to load the "url" helper. ("my_url..." != "MY_url...")

Update: fixed typo, clarified which "previous poster" I referred to