Comments on: Extending CakePHP’s core components

By: Rebuild Project Notes #5 @ Robot Minds of Robot Slaves

Rebuild Project Notes #5 @ Robot Minds of Robot Slaves — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 04:47:23 +0000

[...] is an interesting article on how you can extend core CakePHP components. I am going to be using that author’s recommendations in my effort. The gist of his advice is [...]

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Rebuild Project Notes #2 @ Robot Minds of Robot Slaves — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 04:24:38 +0000

[...] Info: How to extend the CakePHP AuthComponent. More on extending AuthComponent I found the Joomla boilerplate over here. no comments yet.« Rebuild Project Notes #1 [...]

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:29:03 +0000

@daniel: Can you post the relevant code? And which CakePHP version do you use?

By: daniel

daniel — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:11:22 +0000

Hm this isn’t working for me. When i call a method by the old name, I get an error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined method stdClass::send()

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:06:00 +0000

@Teh Treag: Thanks for sharing this alternative approach!

Personally, I prefer to handle it in the controller, as I think a component shouldn’t care about the name under which it will be available in a controller. That’s the responsibility of the controller. But in the end it is probably just a matter of taste.

By: Teh Treag

Teh Treag — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:51:55 +0000

Since AD7six pointed it out to me, I prefer to handle it in the class, instead of in the controller.

// app/controllers/components/my_request_handler.php
function initialize(&$Controller, $config = array()) {
    $this->settings = array_merge($this->settings, $config);
    $this->Controller =& $Controller;
    $Controller->RequestHandler =& $this;
}

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:18:30 +0000

@Nik: Thanks for your comment!

Well, this approach doesn’t work for helpers, because they are created later… However, in an earlier article I described a possible idea for how you can “hack” core helpers.

Hope that helps!

By: Nik Chankov

Nik Chankov — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:02:15 +0000

I was searched for such functionality recently, but for some reason I’ve discontinued the research. One of the possible additions is to extend the html class so it could handle links depending from permissions. Let’s say if user has right to access Edit window the link to be visible, if not just disable it, or completely hide.

Thanks for the hint Daniel.

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:12:47 +0000

@John: Thanks for your comment and I’m glad to hear it is useful for you!

By: John

John — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:47:44 +0000

That is so cool… there are so many possibilities. But the best part – like you say – is you can just use it in the normal way.