CakePHP Tools Plugin

A CakePHP plugin containing several useful tools that can be used in many projects.

Version notice

This master branch only works for CakePHP 4.2+. See version map for details.

What is this plugin for?

Enhancing the core

• Auto-trim on POST (to make – especially notEmpty/notBlank – validation working properly).
• Disable cache also works for older IE versions.
• Provide enum support as “static enums”
• Default settings for Paginator, … can be set using Configure.
• Provided a less error-prone inArray() method via Utility class and other usefulness.
• TestSuite enhancements
• A few more Database Type classes

Additional features

• Passwordable behavior allows easy to use password functionality for frontend and backend.
• MultiColumnAuthenticate for log-in with e.g. “email or username”.
• Slugged, Reset and other behaviors
• Tree helper for working with (complex) trees and their output.
• Progress and Meter helper for progress bar and meter bar elements (HTML5 and textual).
• Text, Time, Number libs and helpers etc provide extended functionality if desired.
• Icon helper for displaying all kind of font icons. NEW
• QrCode, Gravatar and other useful small helpers
• Timeline, Typography, etc provide additional helper functionality.
• Email as a wrapper for core’s Email adding some more usefulness and making debugging/testing easier.
• I18n language detection and switching

Providing 3.x shims

This plugin for CakePHP 4 also contains some 3.x shims to ease migration of existing applications from 3.x to 4.x:

• See Shim plugin for details on most of the provided shims.

Installation & Docs

• Documentation

TODOs

• Move more 3.x stuff to 4.x