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 3.6+ - please use the 2.x branch for CakePHP 2.x!

What is this plugin for?

Enhancing the core

Auto-trim on POST (to make - not only notEmpty - 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
Text, Time, Number libs and helpers etc provide extended functionality if desired.
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 2.x shims

This plugin for CakePHP 3 also contains some 2.x shims to ease migration of existing applications from 2.x to 3.x:

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

Installation & Docs

Documentation

TODOs

Move more 2.x stuff to 3.x