lithium\template\Helper
Extends
lithium\core\Object
Abstract class for template helpers to extend. Supplies the basic functionality of _render and _options, as well as escaping.
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abstract class Helper extends \lithium\core\Object {
/**
* Maps helper method names to content types as defined by the `Media` class, where key are
* method names, and values are the content type that the method name outputs a link to.
*
* @var array
*/
public $contentMap = array();
/**
* Holds string templates which will be merged into the rendering context.
*
* @var array
*/
protected $_strings = array();
/**
* The Renderer object this Helper is bound to.
*
* @var lithium\template\view\Renderer
* @see lithium\template\view\Renderer
*/
protected $_context = null;
/**
* This property can be overwritten with any class dependencies a helper subclass has.
*
* @var array
*/
protected $_classes = array();
/**
* Auto configuration properties.
*
* @var array
*/
protected $_autoConfig = array('classes' => 'merge', 'context');
/**
* List of minimized HTML attributes.
*
* @var array
*/
protected $_minimized = array(
'compact', 'checked', 'declare', 'readonly', 'disabled', 'selected', 'defer', 'ismap',
'nohref', 'noshade', 'nowrap', 'multiple', 'noresize', 'async', 'autofocus'
);
/**
* Constructor.
*
* @param array $config Configuration options.
* @return void
*/
public function __construct(array $config = array()) {
$defaults = array('handlers' => array(), 'context' => null);
parent::__construct($config + $defaults);
}
/**
* Imports local string definitions into rendering context.
*
* @return void
*/
protected function _init() {
parent::_init();
if (!$this->_context) {
return;
}
$this->_context->strings($this->_strings);
if ($this->_config['handlers']) {
$this->_context->handlers($this->_config['handlers']);
}
}
/**
* Escapes values according to the output type of the rendering context. Helpers that output to
* non-HTML/XML contexts should override this method accordingly.
*
* @param string $value
* @param mixed $method
* @param array $options
* @return mixed
*/
public function escape($value, $method = null, array $options = array()) {
$defaults = array('escape' => true);
$options += $defaults;
if ($options['escape'] === false) {
return $value;
}
if (is_array($value)) {
return array_map(array($this, __FUNCTION__), $value);
}
return htmlspecialchars($value, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
}
/**
* Takes the defaults and current options, merges them and returns options which have
* the default keys removed and full set of options as the scope.
*
* @param array $defaults
* @param array $scope the complete set of options
* @return array $scope, $options
*/
protected function _options(array $defaults, array $scope) {
$scope += $defaults;
$options = array_diff_key($scope, $defaults);
return array($scope, $options);
}
/**
* Render a string template after applying context filters
* Use examples in the Html::link() method:
* `return $this->_render(__METHOD__, 'link', compact('title', 'url', 'options'), $scope);`
*
* @param string $method name of method that is calling the render (for context filters)
* @param string $string template key (in Helper::_strings) to render
* @param array $params associated array of template inserts {:key} will be replaced by value
* @param array $options Available options:
* - `'handlers'` _array_: Before inserting `$params` inside the string template,
* `$this->_context`'s handlers are applied to each value of `$params` according
* to the key (e.g `$params['url']`, which is processed by the `'url'` handler
* via `$this->_context->applyHandler()`).
* The `'handlers'` option allow to set custom mapping beetween `$params`'s key and
* `$this->_context`'s handlers. e.g. the following handler:
* `'handlers' => array('url' => 'path')` will make `$params['url']` to be
* processed by the `'path'` handler instead of the `'url'` one.
* @return string Rendered HTML
*/
protected function _render($method, $string, $params, array $options = array()) {
$strings = $this->_strings;
if (isset($params['options']['scope'])) {
$options['scope'] = $params['options']['scope'];
unset($params['options']['scope']);
}
if ($this->_context) {
foreach ($params as $key => $value) {
$handler = isset($options['handlers'][$key]) ? $options['handlers'][$key] : $key;
$params[$key] = $this->_context->applyHandler(
$this, $method, $handler, $value, $options
);
}
$strings = $this->_context->strings();
}
return String::insert(isset($strings[$string]) ? $strings[$string] : $string, $params);
}
/**
* Converts a set of parameters to HTML attributes into a string.
*
* @see lithium\template\view\Renderer::__call()
* @param array|string $params The parameters where key is the attribute name and
* the value the attribute value. When string will simply prepend
* with the prepend-string (by default `' '`) unless $params is
* falsey in which case an empty string is returned. This
* alternative syntax is used by the method internally.
* @param string $method When used as a context handler, the method the handler was
* called for I.e. `'wrap'`. Currently not used by the method.
* @param array $options Available options are:
* - `'escape'` _boolean_: Indicates whether the output should be
* HTML-escaped. Defaults to `true`.
* - `'prepend'` _string_: String to prepend to each attribute pair.
* and the final result. Defaults to `' '`.
* - `'append'` _string_: String to append to result. Defaults to `''`.
* @return string Attribute string.
*/
protected function _attributes($params, $method = null, array $options = array()) {
$defaults = array('escape' => true, 'prepend' => ' ', 'append' => '');
$options += $defaults;
$result = array();
if (!is_array($params)) {
return !$params ? '' : $options['prepend'] . $params;
}
foreach ($params as $key => $value) {
if ($next = $this->_attribute($key, $value, $options)) {
$result[] = $next;
}
}
return $result ? $options['prepend'] . implode(' ', $result) . $options['append'] : '';
}
/**
* Convert a key/value pair to a valid HTML attribute.
*
* @param string $key The key name of the HTML attribute.
* @param mixed $value The HTML attribute value.
* @param array $options The options used when converting the key/value pair to attributes:
* - `'escape'` _boolean_: Indicates whether `$key` and `$value` should be
* HTML-escaped. Defaults to `true`.
* - `'format'` _string_: The format string. Defaults to `'%s="%s"'`.
* @return string Returns an HTML attribute/value pair, in the form of `'$key="$value"'`.
*/
protected function _attribute($key, $value, array $options = array()) {
$defaults = array('escape' => true, 'format' => '%s="%s"');
$options += $defaults;
if (in_array($key, $this->_minimized)) {
$isMini = ($value === 1 || $value === true || $value === $key);
if (!($value = $isMini ? $key : $value)) {
return null;
}
}
$value = (string) $value;
if ($options['escape']) {
return sprintf($options['format'], $this->escape($key), $this->escape($value));
}
return sprintf($options['format'], $key, $value);
}
}