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Class Helper
Base class for Helpers.
Console Helpers allow you to package up reusable blocks of Console output logic. For example creating tables, progress bars or ascii art.
- Cake\Console\Helper uses Cake\Core\InstanceConfigTrait
 
Direct Subclasses
Properties summary
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$_defaultConfigprotectedDefault config for this helper.array - 
    ConsoleIo instance.
$_ioprotected 
Inherited Properties
Method Summary
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    __construct() publicConstructor.
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     This method should output content using 
$this->_io. 
Method Detail
__construct()source 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.
 
output()source abstract public
output( array $args )
   This method should output content using $this->_io.
Parameters
- 
     array 
$args - The arguments for the helper.
 
Methods used from Cake\Core\InstanceConfigTrait
_configDelete()source 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
_configRead()source protected
_configRead( string|null $key )
   Read a config variable
Parameters
- 
     string|null 
$key - Key to read.
 
Returns
mixed_configWrite()source 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
config()source 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.
configShallow()source 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
$this The object itself.
Properties detail
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