Life with CakePHP

I’m using CakePHP1.2.4
At times, I want to modify/extend a  plugin indirectly.

How do I do that?
It’s very simple, only import and inherit.

Here is the plugin(cakeplus) I made on the github.
http://github.com/ichikaway/cakeplus/tree

In this example ,   I use the behavior(add_validation_rule.php) of the cakeplus plugin and modify some method.

1. download the cakeplus plugin, and set in the “app/plugins” directory.
2. make new directory(cakeplusplus) in the “app/plugins”.

Now you can see directories as follow.

plugins/cakeplus/models/behaviors/add_validation_rule.php

plugins/cakeplusplus/models/behaviors/

3. create “ext_add_validation_rule.php”  file in “cakeplusplus/models/behaviors/” directory .

App::import('Model', 'cakeplus.AddValidationRule');
class ExtAddValidationRuleBehavior extends AddValidationRuleBehavior {

}

4. Now you can use the “ExtAddValidationRuleBehavior” class which has same functions as the “AddValidationRuleBehavior” class.

class Post extends AppModel {

var $name = 'Post';

//var $actsAs = array('Cakeplus.AddValidationRule');
var $actsAs = array('Cakeplusplus.ExtAddValidationRule');

}

5.If you want to modify or extend, you just override a method of the “AddValidationRuleBehavior” class in the “ExtAddValidationRuleBehavior” class as follow.
In this example, override the maxLengthJP method and change that function.

App::import('Model', 'cakeplus.AddValidationRule');
class ExtAddValidationRuleBehavior extends AddValidationRuleBehavior {

function maxLengthJP( &$model, $wordvalue, $length ) {
$word = array_shift($wordvalue);

//extend
$length = $length * 2;

return( mb_strlen( $word ) <= $length );
}
}