I have an ItemsController which extends AppController.
To handle my site menu, I used a menuhelper.
However, I saw in the documentation that you have to add your helpers in an array in your controller (AppController):
public $helpers = array('Form', 'Html', 'Menu');
The weird thing is that I forgot it and my menu worked anyway.
Also, you always have to add Form and Html extra to the array because otherwise they don't work anymore.
However, when I do something like this in my AppController, my form helpers still work:
public $helpers = array('Menu');
So it seems that whatever I do, it still works, but I don't get why and I don't like automatic "magic" :)
Is there something I am missing in the docs?
Since 2.x you don't "need" to specify app or core helpers.
Those are lazyloaded automatically.
You only need to specify plugin helpers manually.
That said I personally still always describe what helpers I use, just to be consistent with the plugin ones.
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I would like to implement an autoslug-function for two models in CakePHP3 and use the beforeSave-callback for that which works fine. However the slug structure is a bit different than in Inflector::slug, so I wrote a small function for the different structure which finally leads to my question
In Cake2 I would have placed this helper function in AppModel which is not existing anymore. What's the best way to do that now? A behaviour (which seems a bit biggish for 2 lines of code) or class AppTable extends Table or ..?
Make it a behavior and use it where needed instead of putting it in a super model class. If you put that into a plugin and repository you can simply add your plugin as package via composer for every app that needs this plugin.
I have a method which exports riport data into an xlsx file in my CakePHP 2 project. It is working well. In the same time it seems it just ignores anything what I put into View/Layouts/xlsx/default.ctp
In my routes.php I have
Router::parseExtensions('json', 'xlsx');
In my controller I have
public $components = array('RequestHandler');
My View/Riports/xlsx/export.ctp is rendered, but View/Layouts/xlsx/default.ctp is ignored.
What do I miss?
I think you're out of luck here. From the documentation;
The data view classes don’t support layouts. They assume that the view file will output the serialized content.
http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/views/json-and-xml-views.html#using-a-data-view-with-view-files
But I may be wrong of course :)
So, in CakePHP, there is a way to turn off labels by default by putting 'label'=>false in 'inputDefaults' in the Form->create() statement.
Is there a way to, instead of removing labels altogether, to change labels into element placeholder attributes? This is equivalent to doing the 'inputDefaults'=>array('label'=>false) on the Form->create while adding a 'placeholder'=>'Placeholder' to each element... but is there a way to do it without having to add it to each element and have CakePHP do it for you?
You could run your own copy of FormHelper that contains your modifications. You can copy the version of FormHelper from lib/Cake/View/Helper/FormHelper.php and paste it into your app at app/View/Helper/FormHelper.php and make the required modifications to your copy. The copy in your app folder takes precedence over the one provided in the core. As always, never ever ever make modifications to files in Core.
Alternatively, you could extend FormHelper into your own Helper class:
class MyFormHelper extends FormHelper {
...
}
Don't forget to add 'MyForm' into your $helpers array!
At any rate, what you're asking is not currently possible using Cake 2.x. Without any changes, you'll need to add a 'placeholder' => '...' in the options array of each input() call. If you make this change, please consider contributing it back to the CakePHP community so others can benefit from your work!
I have a module that handles translations.
It is not bound to any database, the file is purely and simply something like this:
$arr["key1"]="text";
...
I need to make Ajax calls in order to edit that file. That file will be imported each time a page is accessed in order to deliver any text content that I need (it may not be the best thing of the world but it does the job, and it's supposed to be really fast since there's no "XML parsing" kind of thing, it is simply stored in a standard .php file).
To handle these ajax calls that will have actions like Add/Edit operations, I have made a TranslationController that is Model-less:
class TranslationsController extends AppController {
public $uses = array(); // Model-less
public $components = array('RequestHandler');
public $helpers = array('Session');
protected $translationFilePath;
public function setItem() {
}
public function backupFile() {
}
}
My problem is simple: where do I put custom functions that are used to open/write/find in files?
For example I have a function that extracts a key from the line that is being read.
I've seen some posts where we are advised to place the data inside the model but in my case I have no model AND it's these functions are not linked to the data. So it shouldn't be in the model, right? I do not want it to be global.
Thank you for your help.
Why are you not using the built in translation stuff that comes with CakePHP and is based on the more or less standard gettext tools?
What you're doing is just re-inventing the wheel and probably coming up with a non tested customized translation implementation that is obviously lacking feature that CakePHP alreay offers you. For example how do you handle plurals?
CakePHP offers you __(), __d(), __n(), __dn() for translations and the translation files are stored in APP/Locale/ as plain text files and are edited with poedit.
See http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/ and http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/core-libraries/internationalization-and-localization.html
Sounds like a use case for a custom datasource: http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/models/datasources.html.
Personally, I would just create a normal PHP class in the app/Lib folder of your application.
I am trying to display an uploaded image with the Media Plugin of CakePHP.
I added the helper to the controller helper array: var $helpers = array('Media.Media');. Then, in my view, I have this code: echo $media−>file($news['Attachment'][0]['dirname'].DS.$news['Attachment'][0]['basename']);. But the problem is that, it outputs this error:
Undefined variable: media− [APP/views/news/view.ctp, line 3]
What could be the problem?
By the way, if a plugin has a model User in app/plugin/users/models/user.php and i create a new model called User in the app/models folder which one will be loaded?
Thanks in advance for any help!
First off if you are using 1.3.x refer to helpers via $this->HelperName->method(), there could be a variable called $media being set in some method. you can check this by doing var_dump($media);
The other option is that something has maybe unset it. Its very strange that you have the helper set but the variable is not set. It could also be due to adding the $helpers array to the wrong controller, you can try add it to app_controller and see if that works. if it does you had it in the wrong place.
If i got your second question correct, and we are talking about auto loading, a plugin controller will first look for the model in its own plugin directory, if it is not found there it will fall back to the app/models directory.
if you are loading it manually via the $uses array, it depends on the version of cake and how you do it. In previous versions 1.x even $uses = array('User'); would load the plugin model as cake would auto add the plugin prefix. This has changed for 2.0 afaik.
For other methods of loading a model, such as $this->loadModel('User); would load from app/models and $this->loadModel('PluginName.User') would load from the app/plugins/plugin_name/models dir.
Edit:
you are right that is funny having the error show $media- and there is the problem. did you copy that code from some site? − is not - you have a utf8 char in the code which is what its complaining about.