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Class TableHelper
Create a visually pleasing ASCII art table from 2 dimensional array data.
- Cake\Console\Helper uses Cake\Core\InstanceConfigTrait
 Cake\Shell\Helper\TableHelper Cake\Shell\Helper\TableHelper
Method Detail
_addStylesource protected
_addStyle( string $text , string $style )Add style tags
Parameters
- 
     string $text
- The text to be surrounded
- 
     string $style
- The style to be applied
Returns
stringstring
_calculateWidthssource protected
_calculateWidths( array $rows )Calculate the column widths
Parameters
- 
     array $rows
- The rows on which the columns width will be calculated on.
Returns
arrayarray
_rendersource protected
_render( array $row , array $widths , array $options [] )Output a row.
Parameters
- 
     array $row
- The row to output.
- 
     array $widths
- The widths of each column to output.
- 
     array $optionsoptional []
- Options to be passed.
_rowSeparatorsource protected
_rowSeparator( array $widths )Output a row separator.
Parameters
- 
     array $widths
- The widths of each column to output.
outputsource public
output( array $rows )Output a table.
Parameters
- 
     array $rows
- The data to render out.
Methods inherited from Cake\Console\Helper
__constructsource public
__construct( Cake\Console\ConsoleIo $io , array $config [] )Constructor.
Parameters
- Cake\Console\ConsoleIo- $io
- The ConsoleIo instance to use.
- 
     array $configoptional []
- The settings for this helper.
Methods used from Cake\Core\InstanceConfigTrait
_configDeletesource protected
_configDelete( string $key )Delete a single config key
Parameters
- 
     string $key
- Key to delete.
Throws
Cake\Core\Exception\Exceptionif attempting to clobber existing config
_configReadsource protected
_configRead( string|null $key )Read a config variable
Parameters
- 
     string|null $key
- Key to read.
Returns
mixedmixed
_configWritesource protected
_configWrite( string|array $key , mixed $value , boolean|string $merge false )Write a config variable
Parameters
- 
     string|array $key
- Key to write to.
- 
     mixed $value
- Value to write.
- 
     boolean|string $mergeoptional false
- True to merge recursively, 'shallow' for simple merge, false to overwrite, defaults to false.
Throws
Cake\Core\Exception\Exceptionif attempting to clobber existing config
configsource public
config( string|array|null $key null , mixed|null $value null , boolean $merge true )Usage
Reading the whole config:
$this->config();
Reading a specific value:
$this->config('key');
Reading a nested value:
$this->config('some.nested.key');
Setting a specific value:
$this->config('key', $value);
Setting a nested value:
$this->config('some.nested.key', $value);
Updating multiple config settings at the same time:
$this->config(['one' => 'value', 'another' => 'value']);
Parameters
- 
     string|array|null $keyoptional null
- The key to get/set, or a complete array of configs.
- 
     mixed|null $valueoptional null
- The value to set.
- 
     boolean $mergeoptional true
- Whether to recursively merge or overwrite existing config, defaults to true.
Returns
mixedConfig value being read, or the object itself on write operations.
Throws
Cake\Core\Exception\ExceptionWhen trying to set a key that is invalid.
configShallowsource public
configShallow( string|array $key , mixed|null $value null )Merge provided config with existing config. Unlike config() which does a recursive merge for nested keys, this method does a simple merge.
Setting a specific value:
$this->config('key', $value);
Setting a nested value:
$this->config('some.nested.key', $value);
Updating multiple config settings at the same time:
$this->config(['one' => 'value', 'another' => 'value']);
Parameters
- 
     string|array $key
- The key to set, or a complete array of configs.
- 
     mixed|null $valueoptional null
- The value to set.
Returns
mixed$this The object itself.
Properties summary
$_defaultConfigsource
protected array
Default config for this helper.
[
    'headers' => true,
    'rowSeparator' => false,
    'headerStyle' => 'info',
]Properties inherited from Cake\Console\Helper
Properties used from Cake\Core\InstanceConfigTrait
$_configInitializedsource
protected boolean
Whether the config property has already been configured with defaults
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