p0lym0rphik/cakephp-metabehavior

CakePHP MetaBehavior Plugin, dealing with additional datas

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CakePHP MetaBehavior

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Introduction

CakePHP Metabehavior is a meta data Behavior for CakePHP 2. This behavior allows you to store, retrieve and search for metadata about any record for any model within your database., _(*3)

Installation

1. Add the folder on your app/Plugin directory., _(*4)

2. Make sure that the Plugin is loaded (check your bootstrap configuration)., _(*5)

3. Run the following commands:, _(*6)

cd /path/to/installation/
app/Console/cake schema create MetaBehavior.metas

1. Add the behavior to the model you want to use.

class MyModel extends Model {
    public $actsAs = array('Meta');
}

How to

1. Add datas to an object.

// Just set meta key on the primary request model
    $savedDatas = $this->request->data;
    $savedDatas['MyModel']['foo'] = 'bar';
    
    $this->MyModel->save($savedDatas);

1. Retrieve datas.

    // Just launch a find and datas are in the primary model.

    $model = $this->MyModel->findByid(1);
    
    return array(
        'MyModel' => array(
            'id' => 1,
            'foo' => 'bar'
        )
    )   

1. You can directly search on meta values.

    $this->MyModel->find('all',array(
        'conditions' => array(
            'MyModel.foo =' => 'bar'
        )
    ));

Licence GPL2

CakePHP MetaBehavior plugin Copyright (C) 2014 Fabien Moreau, _(*7)

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version., _(*8)

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details., _(*9)

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA., _(*10)