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CakePHP Utility Classes

This is the fork of library provides a range of utility classes of CakePHP framework but without framework core dependencies.

Why?

I like CakePHP, a powerful, beautiful and flexible PHP framework. But I can't use it with every project I work :( . So I clone this very handy toolbox, drops out any dependencies to Cake/Core to use this library separately.

Versioning strategy

• 1.x.x — PHP 5.6-7.3, receives code backports as soon as my projects runs on these PHP versions
• 2.x.x — PHP 7.4, receives code and tests backports
• 3.x.x — PHP 8.0 currently in the master branch

What's in the toolbox?

Hash

A Hash (as in PHP arrays) class, capable of extracting data using an intuitive DSL:

$things = [
    ['name' => 'Mark', 'age' => 15],
    ['name' => 'Susan', 'age' => 30],
    ['name' => 'Lucy', 'age' => 25]
];

$bigPeople = Hash::extract($things, '{n}[age>21].name');

// $bigPeople will contain ['Susan', 'Lucy']

Check the official Hash class documentation

Inflector

The Inflector class takes a string and can manipulate it to handle word variations such as pluralizations or camelizing.

echo Inflector::pluralize('Apple'); // echoes Apples

echo Inflector::singularize('People'); // echoes Person

Check the official Inflector class documentation

Text

The Text class includes convenience methods for creating and manipulating strings.

Text::insert(
    'My name is :name and I am :age years old.',
    ['name' => 'Bob', 'age' => '65']
);
// Returns: "My name is Bob and I am 65 years old."

$text = 'This is the song that never ends.';
$result = Text::wrap($text, 22);

// Returns
This is the song
that never ends.

Check the official Text class documentation

Xml

The Xml class allows you to easily transform arrays into SimpleXMLElement or DOMDocument objects and back into arrays again

$data = [
    'post' => [
        'id' => 1,
        'title' => 'Best post',
        'body' => ' ... '
    ]
];
$xml = Xml::build($data);

Check the official Xml class documentation