Settings plugin for CakePHP

The Settings Plugin allows you to manage your settings (normally used with cake's Configure-class) in your database.

• Is easy to use: you can use the Configure::read() and Configure::write() methods via the Setting-class.

• Also, you are able to read and write settings by your console.

• Last but not least: If you use the CakeAdmin Plugin you get an automatically generated form :).

Note: The Settings-plugin is prefix-minded. An example: Prefix.Name.

Installation

You can install this plugin into your CakePHP application using composer. For existing applications you can add the following to your composer.json file:

"require": {
	"cakemanager/cakephp-settings": "dev-master"
}

And run /composer update.

Configuration

You will need to add the following line to your application's bootstrap.php file:

Plugin::load('Settings', ['bootstrap' => true, 'routes' => true]);

// or run in your shell

$ bin/cake plugin load -b -r Settings

Next you need to create the table. Use the following command to initialize the settings-table.

$ bin/cake migrations migrate -p Settings

Usage

The Setting-class works the same like the Configure-class from CakePHP itself.

You can include the class with:

use Settings\Core\Setting;

Write

You can write settings with the following:

Setting::write('App.Name', 'Custom Name');

The value Custom Name is now written to the database with the key App.Name. The empty array can contain multiple options

Read

Now we gonna read the value from our just created key. Use:

Setting::read('App.Name');

This will return our value: Custom Name.

Register

To prevent missing configurations when migrating to another environment the register method is introduced. Use the following to make sure the configuration exists in your application:

Setting::register('App.Name', 'Default Value', []);

Options

The following options are available:

• description - Description of your setting.
• type - Type to use like text, select, and more.
• options - Array with available options. In combination with the type = select option, this will generate a select-box with the given options.
• editable - Bool if the setting should be editable.
• weight - Weight (order) of the setting.

The options key can handle multiple types. You can define an array with options, but you can also create a close to prevent long queries on every request. Example:

Setting::register('App.Index', false, [
    'options' => function() {
        return TableRegistry::get('Blogs')->find('list')->toArray();
    }
]);

Using the setting-forms

If you are using the CakeAdmin Plugin, we will create a default form where you can edit your settings (if the field editable isset to 1). The Settings-Plugin will automatically add a menu-item to the admin-area.

If you click the menu-item you will see a list with all editable settings who contains the chosen prefix (or default: App).

Register

To add your prefix to the settings-list use the following:

Configure::write('Settings.Prefixes.Test', 'Test');