CakePHP Tools Plugin

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

This branch is for CakePHP 3.7+. 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.
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