Enum Behavior

CakePHP does not support MySQL's Enum fields types. I've commed around 3 solutions to conturn this problem:

• using a second table
• using MySQL's Enum and retrieve EnumValues like in Baked Enums

This behavior is using an other approach, it stores the configuration in an array which is fast and flexible. It also creates validation rules and the select lists.

Installation

Simply download and put it in the CakePHP-Enum-Behavior folder and its content in your app/Plugin folder.

Load plugin in app/Config/bootstrap.php :

CakePlugin::load('CakePHP-Enum-Behavior');

Using composer:

"require" : {
    "asper/cakephp-enum-behavior": "*"
}

As a git submodule (execute inside app/Plugin):

git submodule add https://github.com/asper/CakePHP-Enum-Behavior.git

Usage

Let's assume we have a posts table and we want to have a status field that could have 3 possible values (draft, published, archive).

Table data :

id			int(10)
title		varchar(65)
content		varchar(65)
status		varchar(65)

In your Post model :

public $actsAs = array(
	'CakePHP-Enum-Behavior.Enum' => array(
		'status' => array('draft', 'published', 'archive')
	)
);

You can use named keys in associative array with key as data field value

public $actsAs = array(
    'CakePHP-Enum-Behavior.Enum' => array(
        'status' => array(23 => 'draft', 'pub' => 'published', 2 => 'archive')
    )
);    

In your Posts controller, in the beforeRender callback add :

$this->set($this->Post->enumValues());

To display the status dropdown menu in your forms you just have to use the FormHelper as usual :

$this->Form->input('Post.status');

To display the status in your view use :

echo $statuses[$post['Post']['status']];

If yout want the strings to be translated, add (anywhere in your application [even if it doesn't seems right]):

__('Draft'); // Humanized value
__('Published');
__('Archive');

Credits

• kaiyou : Strict compatibility with CakePHP 2.3.0
• Andrew Bashtannik : Composer compatibility
• Tomasz Mazur : Change Plugin name to reflect GitHub project name (allows use of Plugin as git submodule)

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2013 Pierre Aboucaya

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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