\Cake\ControllerComponent

Base class for an individual Component. Components provide reusable bits of controller logic that can be composed into a controller. Components also provide request life-cycle callbacks for injecting logic at specific points.

Initialize hook

Like Controller and Table, this class has an initialize() hook that you can use to add custom 'constructor' logic. It is important to remember that each request (and sub-request) will only make one instance of any given component.

Life cycle callbacks

Components can provide several callbacks that are fired at various stages of the request cycle. The available callbacks are:

  • beforeFilter(Event $event) Called before the controller's beforeFilter method by default.
  • startup(Event $event) Called after the controller's beforeFilter method, and before the controller action is called.
  • beforeRender(Event $event) Called before the Controller beforeRender, and before the view class is loaded.
  • shutdown(Event $event) Called after the action is complete and the view has been rendered but before Controller::afterFilter().
  • beforeRedirect(Event $event $url, Response $response) Called before a redirect is done. Allows you to change the URL that will be redirected to by returning a Response instance with new URL set using Response::location(). Redirection can be prevented by stopping the event propagation.

While the controller is not an explicit argument for the callback methods it is the subject of each event and can be fetched using Event::getSubject().

Summary

Methods
Properties
Constants
setConfig()
getConfig()
config()
configShallow()
log()
__construct()
getController()
initialize()
__get()
implementedEvents()
__debugInfo()
$request
$response
$components
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_configRead()
_configWrite()
_configDelete()
$_config
$_configInitialized
$_registry
$_defaultConfig
$_componentMap
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Properties

$components

$components : array

Other Components this component uses.

Type

array

$_config

$_config : array

Runtime config

Type

array

$_configInitialized

$_configInitialized : boolean

Whether the config property has already been configured with defaults

Type

boolean

$_defaultConfig

$_defaultConfig : array

Default config

These are merged with user-provided config when the component is used.

Type

array

$_componentMap

$_componentMap : array

A component lookup table used to lazy load component objects.

Type

array

Methods

setConfig()

setConfig(string|array  $key, mixed|null  $value = null, boolean  $merge = true) : $this

Sets the config.

Usage

Setting a specific value:

$this->setConfig('key', $value);

Setting a nested value:

$this->setConfig('some.nested.key', $value);

Updating multiple config settings at the same time:

$this->setConfig(['one' => 'value', 'another' => 'value']);

Parameters

string|array $key

The key to set, or a complete array of configs.

mixed|null $value

The value to set.

boolean $merge

Whether to recursively merge or overwrite existing config, defaults to true.

Throws

\Cake\Core\Exception\Exception

When trying to set a key that is invalid.

Returns

$this

getConfig()

getConfig(string|null  $key = null, mixed  $default = null) : mixed

Returns the config.

Usage

Reading the whole config:

$this->getConfig();

Reading a specific value:

$this->getConfig('key');

Reading a nested value:

$this->getConfig('some.nested.key');

Reading with default value:

$this->getConfig('some-key', 'default-value');

Parameters

string|null $key

The key to get or null for the whole config.

mixed $default

The return value when the key does not exist.

Returns

mixed —

Config value being read.

config()

config(string|array|null  $key = null, mixed|null  $value = null, boolean  $merge = true) : mixed

Gets/Sets the config.

Usage

Reading the whole config:

$this->config();

Reading a specific value:

$this->config('key');

Reading a nested value:

$this->config('some.nested.key');

Setting a specific value:

$this->config('key', $value);

Setting a nested value:

$this->config('some.nested.key', $value);

Updating multiple config settings at the same time:

$this->config(['one' => 'value', 'another' => 'value']);

Parameters

string|array|null $key

The key to get/set, or a complete array of configs.

mixed|null $value

The value to set.

boolean $merge

Whether to recursively merge or overwrite existing config, defaults to true.

Throws

\Cake\Core\Exception\Exception

When trying to set a key that is invalid.

Returns

mixed —

Config value being read, or the object itself on write operations.

configShallow()

configShallow(string|array  $key, mixed|null  $value = null) : $this

Merge provided config with existing config. Unlike `config()` which does a recursive merge for nested keys, this method does a simple merge.

Setting a specific value:

$this->configShallow('key', $value);

Setting a nested value:

$this->configShallow('some.nested.key', $value);

Updating multiple config settings at the same time:

$this->configShallow(['one' => 'value', 'another' => 'value']);

Parameters

string|array $key

The key to set, or a complete array of configs.

mixed|null $value

The value to set.

Returns

$this

log()

log(mixed  $msg, integer|string  $level = \Psr\Log\LogLevel::ERROR, string|array  $context = array()) : boolean

Convenience method to write a message to Log. See Log::write() for more information on writing to logs.

Parameters

mixed $msg

Log message.

integer|string $level

Error level.

string|array $context

Additional log data relevant to this message.

Returns

boolean —

Success of log write.

__construct()

__construct(\Cake\Controller\ComponentRegistry  $registry, array  $config = array()) 

Constructor

Parameters

\Cake\Controller\ComponentRegistry $registry

A ComponentRegistry this component can use to lazy load its components

array $config

Array of configuration settings.

getController()

getController() : \Cake\Controller\Controller

Get the controller this component is bound to.

Returns

\Cake\Controller\Controller

The bound controller.

initialize()

initialize(array  $config) : void

Constructor hook method.

Implement this method to avoid having to overwrite the constructor and call parent.

Parameters

array $config

The configuration settings provided to this component.

__get()

__get(string  $name) : mixed

Magic method for lazy loading $components.

Parameters

string $name

Name of component to get.

Returns

mixed —

A Component object or null.

implementedEvents()

implementedEvents() : array

Get the Controller callbacks this Component is interested in.

Uses Conventions to map controller events to standard component callback method names. By defining one of the callback methods a component is assumed to be interested in the related event.

Override this method if you need to add non-conventional event listeners. Or if you want components to listen to non-standard events.

Returns

array

__debugInfo()

__debugInfo() : array

Returns an array that can be used to describe the internal state of this object.

Returns

array

_configRead()

_configRead(string|null  $key) : mixed

Reads a config key.

Parameters

string|null $key

Key to read.

Returns

mixed

_configWrite()

_configWrite(string|array  $key, mixed  $value, boolean|string  $merge = false) : void

Writes a config key.

Parameters

string|array $key

Key to write to.

mixed $value

Value to write.

boolean|string $merge

True to merge recursively, 'shallow' for simple merge, false to overwrite, defaults to false.

Throws

\Cake\Core\Exception\Exception

if attempting to clobber existing config

_configDelete()

_configDelete(string  $key) : void

Deletes a single config key.

Parameters

string $key

Key to delete.

Throws

\Cake\Core\Exception\Exception

if attempting to clobber existing config