Re: Using PHP's Interface as Extension Point

I suggest that you use the event system to accomplish this, as it does
exactly what you're describing:

http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/core-libraries/events.html

So, let's say you have a Navigation plugin and you want to gather
navigation items from every plugin in your app. When you want to
gather the items, you'd broadcast an event. You'd have listeners in
each plugin that would listen for the broadcast and return the items
you want.

- Jamie

On May 31, 9:53 am, Vinicius Dusso <vinidu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sure, I know I'm able to use Interfaces where I want to. I just want to
> know if there is a easier way to do this using the CakePHP Plugins. And if
> isn't, if there is a pattern to use Interfaces and let the CakePHP
> autoinclude them, like it did with the MVC classes.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Vinicius
>
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> On Thursday, May 31, 2012 1:07:35 PM UTC-3, jeremyharris wrote:
>
> > CakePHP is just PHP, so there's no reason you couldn't use interfaces
> > where you wanted to. The users of the plugins would just need to understand
> > that they need to implement them.
>
> > On Thursday, May 31, 2012 4:07:13 AM UTC-7, Vinicius Dusso wrote:
>
> >> Hello all,
>
> >> Did everyone tried to use PHP's Interface as Extension Point in CakePHP?
> >> My idea is to create a fully modular app. To build a menu, for example, I
> >> would be able to do something like this:
>
> >> The method 'getExtensionPoint' will get all the classes that implements
> >> the given interface, at run time.
>
> >> // The core of extension point
> >> class MenuController {
>
> >>   function _buildMenu() {
> >>     $menu = array();
>
> >>     $menuProviders = $this->getExtensionPoint('IMenu');
> >>     foreach($menuProviders as $menuProvider) {
> >>       $menu += $menuProvider->getMenu();
> >>     }
> >>   }
>
> >> }
>
> >> // Some class ( could be a Controller or a Model ) which uses this
> >> extension point
> >> class User implements IMenu {
>
> >>   function getMenu() {
> >>     return array('Users' => '/user/list');
> >>   }
>
> >> }
>
> >> // The Interface, to bind the extended classes
> >> public interface IMenu {
> >>   function getMenu();
> >> }
>
> >> Sorry for write all this code here.
> >> Someone already did something like this? This can be done using the
> >> plugins in CakePHP ?
>
> >> Thanks in advance !
>
> >> Vinicius

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