Utils Plugin for CakePHP

The utils plugin contain a lot of reusable components, behaviors and helpers. Here we will list and detail each component.

Behaviors

• Btree -
• CsvImport - adds the ability to import csv data to the model.
• Inheritable -
• Keyvalue - allows to get and save group of settings in key/value representation.
• List - provide a way to make collection ordered
• Lookupable - looks up associated records up based on a given field and its value
• Pingbackable -
• Publishable -
• Serializable - allows serialize/deserialize array data into large text field.
• Sluggable - implement slugs for model.
• SoftDelete - soft deleting for model.
• TinySluggable - creates tiny slugs similar to known url shorteners like bit.ly
• Toggleable - toggle field values

Libraries

• Languages - List of languages that can be used in selects

Components

• Archive - Creates the data for "archive" date ranges that can be used to generated links like "May 2010", "March 2010",...
• FormPreserver - Allow to keep form data between login redirect and returning back after login.
• Pingbacks -
• Referer - Allow to keep referer url inside the add/edit form to reuse it for redirect on success POST or submit.
• Utils -

Helpers

• Cleaner - Allow to strip tags from input markup
• Gravatar - Gravatar Helper
• Tree -

CsvImport Behavior

You can configure the Importable behavior using these options:

• delimiter - The delimiter for the values, default is ;
• enclosure - The enclosure, default is "
• hasHeader - Parse the header of the CSV file if it has one, default is true

The main method of this behavior is

$this->Model->importCSV('myFile.csv');

It will read the csv file and try to save the records to the model. In the case of errors you'll get them by calling

$this->Model->getImportErrors();

Keyvalue Behavior

You can configure the Importable behavior using these options:

• foreignKey - The foreign key field, default is user_id
• scope - Find condition like array to define a scope

List Behavior

The list behavior allows you to have records act like a list, for example a tracklist and to move records in this list.

• positionColumn - The column in the table used to store the positiot, default is 'position'.
• scope - Find condition like array to define a scope, default is empty string ''.
• validate - validate the data when the behavior is saving the changes, default is false.
• callbacks - use callbacks when the behavior saves the data, default is false.

Languages Lib

The languages lib is basically just a helper lib that extends I10n to get a three character language code => country name array.

App::import('Lib', 'Utils.Languages');
$Languages = new Languages();
$languageList = $Languages->lists();

$languageList will contain the three character code mapped to a country. This list can be used in language selects for example.

Archive Component

Referer Component

Allow to keep referer url inside the add/edit form to reuse it for redirect on success POST or submit.

Requirements

• PHP version: PHP 5.2+
• CakePHP version: 1.3 Stable

Support

For support and feature request, please visit the Utils Plugin Support Site.

For more information about our Professional CakePHP Services please visit the Cake Development Corporation website.

License

Copyright 2009-2010, Cake Development Corporation

Licensed under The MIT License
Redistributions of files must retain the above copyright notice.

Copyright

Copyright 2009-2010
Cake Development Corporation
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Las Vegas, Nevada 89104
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