Comments on: More on possible Events in CakePHP

By: micah

micah — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:05:17 +0000

This is a sweet, sweet plugin. I just forked your repo from Github, customizing this for a project I’m working on. Should be able to share my experiences in greater detail when I get some results.
Thanks again for this, this is awesome!

By: furkan tunalı

furkan tunalı — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:06:28 +0000

thanks for your repo and tips. That’s just what i was lookin for.

I’m trying to make modular cms with plugins fully eventfull like run on the spesific hookups. I’ll give it a try to your eventful plugin.

By: Kim Biesbjerg

Kim Biesbjerg — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:37:35 +0000

Hi Kjell,

Did you run any benchmarks? What happens when you have 10 controllers to search for hooks? 50? 100?

By: Kjell

Kjell — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 02:59:34 +0000

http://github.com/m3nt0r/eventful-cakephp/

By: Kjell

Kjell — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:09:11 +0000

Hi Martin,

thanks for your comment. When i get the time this weekend i’ll setup a little repo for this.

Current layout is close to cake default layout and does not mess with the core:

/app/app_model_event.php
/app/app_controller_events.php
/app/events/
/app/events/controllers
/app/events/models
/app/controller/components/event..
/and 2 or 3 libs. not sure. it's been awhile

Looks pretty portable so far, but i’ll try to make it more transparent. Oh.. and it’s PHP5.

By: Martin Westin

Martin Westin — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:56:01 +0000

Looks really interesting.
This type of functionality would be really big for any application that uses a lot of plugins.

To get some simple events going I currently use AppController and requestAction. All “events” are defined as actions in AppController, returning false. Any plugin that wants to catch an event overrides the action. Dispatching of these events is done by lopping through the installed plugins and calling the event-action on each plugin’s “root” controller.

It is clunky but for cron jobs (on_hourly_update) and the few events (on_incoming_mms) I need to dispatch it works ok. But a “real” event system would be really cool. Could be the best thing since Containable… almost :)

Let me know if any help is needed coding, testing, documenting or anything… I’d love to do what little I can.