README

Installation

You can install this plugin into your CakePHP application using composer.

The recommended way to install composer packages is:

composer require simtecsystem/cakephp-filter

Load the plugin

Add following to your config/bootstrap.php

Plugin::load('BRFilter');

Usage

Controller class

public function index()
{
		$this->loadComponent('BRFilter.Filter');
		
		// add filter and options
		$this->Filter->addFilter([
					'filter_id' => ['field' => 'Posts.id', 'operator'=>'='],
					'filter_title' => ['field' => 'Posts.title', 'operator' => 'LIKE', 'explode' => 'true'],
					'filter_category_id' => ['field'=> 'Posts.category_id', 'operator' => 'IN' ] 
		]);
		
		// get conditions
		$conditions = $this->Filter->getConditions(['session'=>'filter']);
		
		// set url for pagination
    	$this->set('url', $this->Filter->getUrl());
    	
    	// apply conditions to pagination
    	$this->paginate['conditions']	= $conditions;
    	
    	// get pagination 
    	$this->set('posts', $this->paginate($this->Posts));
    	
    	// ...
}

Template views

You have to add a form to your index.ctp, corresponding with the alias of your filter configuration.

	echo $this->Form->create();
    
   	// Match with the filter configuration in your controller 
    echo $this->Form->input('filter_id', ['type' => 'text']);
    echo $this->Form->input('filter_title', ['type' => 'text']);
    echo $this->Form->input('filter_category_id', ['options'=>[ /* ... */ ], 'multiple'=>'multiple' ]);
    
	echo $this->Form->button('Filter', ['type' => 'submit']);
	echo $this->Form->end();

Filter options

The following options are supported:

• field (string) The name of the field to use for searching.
• operator (string) The operator used for searching.
• explode (boolean) Used only with operator LIKE and ILIKE to explode the string query.

Operators

The following options are supported:

• =
• >
• <
• >=
• <=
• LIKE
• ILIKE
• IN

Persisting query (session)

All query strings are persisted using sessions. Make sure to load the Session component.