Finding all application Controllers in CakePHP (v1.3.x)
Tuesday, September 28. 2010
At some point in time you may find the need to get a list of all of the controllers within your application. It's actually quite simple so long as you don't need controllers from any plugins.
Place this code in any of your controllers and view it from the web (for instance, from the Users Controller): http://www.example.com/users/listControllers
You'll see something similar to the following:
The App::objects() method returns an array of objects of the given type, such as: 'model', 'controller', 'helper', or 'plugin' - it also accepts other parameters, such as "path" in case you do eventually need to check controllers for your plugins.
The array_diff() is there as a much simpler method to remove the AppController and PagesController from the returned results as they would most likely exist in your application regardless and aren't normally something you'd need to worry about with ACL as there are other means within Cake to handle access to them. You'll notice that array_diff doesn't return an array starting at index of 0 since it removes keys from the original array too. That shouldn't be a problem, but if it is you can always use a loop instead of array_diff() and just unset or splice the matching values.
I used the CakePHP convenience method of pr() (print_r surrounded by PRE tags), and a die() simply to show the returned results and print them to the screen. You'd probably prefer to double underscore the function name (__listControllers()) to make it a private method to the class (rather than publicly viewable via the web), and change pr() to return.
What's the purpose of this?
- Maybe you'd want to create a web interface for ACL and need to know which controllers to give/deny access to/from
- Maybe you want to create a navigation menu based on your controllers
...maybe you can think of something that I can't. :)
Alter to your own tastes. This is only a starting point.
Other useful links (check version compatibility in these resources):
Quick dessert: List all controllers of a CakePHP application
Automatically load all controllers and actions into ACO tables for ACL with a CakePHP Task
How to list all controllers
Place this code in any of your controllers and view it from the web (for instance, from the Users Controller): http://www.example.com/users/listControllers
You'll see something similar to the following:
The App::objects() method returns an array of objects of the given type, such as: 'model', 'controller', 'helper', or 'plugin' - it also accepts other parameters, such as "path" in case you do eventually need to check controllers for your plugins.
The array_diff() is there as a much simpler method to remove the AppController and PagesController from the returned results as they would most likely exist in your application regardless and aren't normally something you'd need to worry about with ACL as there are other means within Cake to handle access to them. You'll notice that array_diff doesn't return an array starting at index of 0 since it removes keys from the original array too. That shouldn't be a problem, but if it is you can always use a loop instead of array_diff() and just unset or splice the matching values.
I used the CakePHP convenience method of pr() (print_r surrounded by PRE tags), and a die() simply to show the returned results and print them to the screen. You'd probably prefer to double underscore the function name (__listControllers()) to make it a private method to the class (rather than publicly viewable via the web), and change pr() to return.
What's the purpose of this?
- Maybe you'd want to create a web interface for ACL and need to know which controllers to give/deny access to/from
- Maybe you want to create a navigation menu based on your controllers
...maybe you can think of something that I can't. :)
Alter to your own tastes. This is only a starting point.
Other useful links (check version compatibility in these resources):
Quick dessert: List all controllers of a CakePHP application
Automatically load all controllers and actions into ACO tables for ACL with a CakePHP Task
How to list all controllers
Hacked.
Thursday, September 23. 2010
My blog system has been hacked for the 2nd time now. I've begun writing a new system at the root of this domain (no more subdomain), so if your RSS feeds break, I've either moved to my new blog, or I've upgraded this blog to fix the hack for the interim - until I can get comments working (which will take me to just get Akismet integration as comments are already technically ready).
I'm don't think the blog system has been secured, so I'd suggest not posting any comments until or unless I update this post mentioning that it is now safe.
Update: Despire the german theme's "Written by" text, this blog's been reinstalled from scratch with the newest version software, but using the same database. Hopefully nothing's still infected. This should give me a decent amount of time to properly move the article entries and comments to the new blog system without worrying too much (and figure out a mod_rewrite rule for the SEO redirects).
I'm don't think the blog system has been secured, so I'd suggest not posting any comments until or unless I update this post mentioning that it is now safe.
Update: Despire the german theme's "Written by" text, this blog's been reinstalled from scratch with the newest version software, but using the same database. Hopefully nothing's still infected. This should give me a decent amount of time to properly move the article entries and comments to the new blog system without worrying too much (and figure out a mod_rewrite rule for the SEO redirects).
