{"id":14788,"date":"2011-04-23T15:09:27","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T13:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=14788"},"modified":"2011-04-23T15:09:27","modified_gmt":"2011-04-23T13:09:27","slug":"disable-and-enable-cakephp-plugins-on-the-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/23\/disable-and-enable-cakephp-plugins-on-the-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"Disable and enable CakePHP plugins on the fly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I am currently working on a rather large project which is based on CakePHP framework. \u00a0In order to simplify the task, I’ve broken down the whole application into a number of CakePHP plugins. \u00a0Now, however, I want to enable\/disable plugins on the fly. \u00a0After a brief search around I couldn’t find how to do that. \u00a0Asking a question at #cakephp IRC channel did it. \u00a0RabidFire instantly replied with\u00a0the link that gave me an idea<\/a>. \u00a0 30 seconds later I had a working solution.<\/p>\n

CakePHP plugins extend AppController. \u00a0So all that one needs to do is add the following lines to app\/app_controller.php<\/em> (Using CakePHP 2.0, but it’s trivial to adopt for earlier versions):<\/p>\n

\r\n\ufeffpublic function beforeFilter() {\r\n    $allowedPlugins = array('crm', 'articles');\r\n    if (!empty($this->request->params['plugin']) && !in_array($this->request->params['plugin'], $allowedPlugins)) {\r\n        throw new ForbiddenException();\r\n    }\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n
I am currently working on a rather large project which is based on CakePHP framework. \u00a0In order to simplify the task, I’ve broken down the whole application into a number of CakePHP plugins. \u00a0Now, however, I want to enable\/disable plugins on the fly. \u00a0After a brief search around I couldn’t find how to do that. … Continue reading Disable and enable CakePHP plugins on the fly<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,18,62],"tags":[1537],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-14788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-programming","category-technology","tag-cakephp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27421,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2017\/03\/17\/cakephp-3-remove-shell-welcome-header\/","url_meta":{"origin":14788,"position":0},"title":"CakePHP 3 : Remove Shell Welcome Header","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"March 17, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"CakePHP 3\u00a0has an excellent support for command line Shells, Tasks, and Console Tools. \u00a0There are a few that are bundled with the framework itself, and that come from a variety of plugins. \u00a0And, of course, you can have your own commands, specific to your application. 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