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Micaël Félix
Micaël Félix

Reputation: 2775

CakePHP custom function (but not global)

I have a module that handles translations.

It is not bound to any database, the file is purely and simply something like this:

$arr["key1"]="text";
...

I need to make Ajax calls in order to edit that file. That file will be imported each time a page is accessed in order to deliver any text content that I need (it may not be the best thing of the world but it does the job, and it's supposed to be really fast since there's no "XML parsing" kind of thing, it is simply stored in a standard .php file).

To handle these ajax calls that will have actions like Add/Edit operations, I have made a TranslationController that is Model-less:

class TranslationsController extends AppController {
    public $uses = array(); // Model-less
    public $components = array('RequestHandler');
    public $helpers = array('Session');
    protected $translationFilePath;

    public function setItem() {
    }

    public function backupFile() {
    }
}

My problem is simple: where do I put custom functions that are used to open/write/find in files?

For example I have a function that extracts a key from the line that is being read.

I've seen some posts where we are advised to place the data inside the model but in my case I have no model AND it's these functions are not linked to the data. So it shouldn't be in the model, right? I do not want it to be global.

Thank you for your help.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 692

Answers (2)

floriank
floriank

Reputation: 25698

Why are you not using the built in translation stuff that comes with CakePHP and is based on the more or less standard gettext tools?

What you're doing is just re-inventing the wheel and probably coming up with a non tested customized translation implementation that is obviously lacking feature that CakePHP alreay offers you. For example how do you handle plurals?

CakePHP offers you __(), __d(), __n(), __dn() for translations and the translation files are stored in APP/Locale/ as plain text files and are edited with poedit.

See http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/ and http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/core-libraries/internationalization-and-localization.html

Upvotes: 1

dhofstet
dhofstet

Reputation: 9964

Sounds like a use case for a custom datasource: http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/models/datasources.html.

Personally, I would just create a normal PHP class in the app/Lib folder of your application.

Upvotes: 0

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