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robotusers/cakephp-di
=====================

PSR-11 compatible CakePHP Dependency Injection Container abstraction plugin

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CakePHP DI
==========

[](#cakephp-di)

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PSR-11 compatible CakePHP Dependency Injection Container abstraction plugin

Under development
-----------------

[](#under-development)

The plugin is under development and not intended to use in production yet.

Versions
--------

[](#versions)

For CakePHP 3.x use CakePHP DI 0.1.x versions. CakePHP DI 0.2.x is intended for CakePHP 4.0 and 4.1

For CakePHP 4.2 try [0.3](https://github.com/robotusers/cakephp-di/tree/0.3) branch

Container Abstraction
---------------------

[](#container-abstraction)

This plugin provides tools for using any PSR-11 compatible DIC with CakePHP framework. DIC support for CakePHP is a very frequently requested feature. Although CakePHP is build with Dependency Injection in mind, it does not provide any build-in DIC. There are many great DI Containers out there and this plugin allows you to choose the one you like the most and use it with your CakePHP app.

Configuration
-------------

[](#configuration)

CakePHP DI plugin provides a `Robotusers\DI\Core\ContainerApplicationInterface`that your `Application` class should implement. This interface defines a `getContainer()` method that should return your PSR-11 compatible container.

The plugin provides a base application class that you can extend.

```
class Application extends \Robotusers\DI\Http\BaseApplication
{
    protected function createContainer()
    {
        $container = new SomeContainer();

        //configure your services

        return $container;
    }
}
```

Note that the base class requires you to implement `createContainer()` method. That is a factory method for your container as `getContainer()` needs to return the same instance on each call.

The `BaseApplication` class also provides some wiring for action dispatcher so the controllers and actions use your DI Container.

Controllers
-----------

[](#controllers)

Controllers should be registered as a service in your DIC. The plugin tries to retrieve a controller from your DIC with the controller's FQCN as an id. For example: `$container->get('App\Controller\ArticlesController')`;

The plugin also provides the ability to inject services into controller actions.

The services must be passed as a parameters to the action method. The precedence take the passed parameters, so for example your `view` method should look like this:

```
//ArticlesController.php

public function view($id, ArticlesServiceInterface $service)
{
    //code
}
```

The `ArticlesServiceInterface` instance will be injected into the method.

Console
-------

[](#console)

In order to fetch a console command from a DIC you need to use a `CommandFactory` provided with this plugin.

In your `bin/cake.php`:

```
...

use App\Application;
use Cake\Console\CommandRunner;
use Robotusers\Di\Console\CommandFactory;

$application = new Application(dirname(__DIR__) . '/config');
$factory = new CommandFactory($application);
$runner = new CommandRunner($application, 'cake', $factory);
exit($runner->run($argv));
```

Table Locator
-------------

[](#table-locator)

Extending `Robotusers\DI\Http\BaseApplication` provides you with a DIC aware implementation of `TableLocator`. During the bootstrapping process the global instance of table locator is injected into `TableRegistry`.

Table locator replacement shipped with this plugin allows you to inject your own table factory.

By default a `ContainerFactory` is used which retrieves a table from your DIC using table's class name as an `$id`. Note that options are not passed to the DIC as PSR-11 implementation does not support passing extrac arguments to the `get()` method.

You either need to configure your table options using `TableLocator::setConfig()`method or configure your container to pass correct options.

You can also use custom implementation of table factory by overriding `Application::createTableLocator()` method. Table factory must be a callable that accepts `$options` array.

```
protected function createTableLocator()
{
    $factory = function($options) {
        // retrieve a table from your DIC

        return $table;
    };

    return new \Robotusers\Di\ORM\Locator\TableLocator($factory);
}
```

###  Health Score

30

—

LowBetter than 62% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity23

Limited adoption so far

Community12

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity53

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 98.7% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~120 days

Recently: every ~5 days

Total

9

Last Release

1925d ago

PHP version history (2 changes)0.1.0PHP >=5.6

0.2.0PHP >=7.2

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7437773?v=4)[Robert Pustułka](/maintainers/robertpustulka)[@robertpustulka](https://github.com/robertpustulka)

---

Top Contributors

[![robertpustulka](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7437773?v=4)](https://github.com/robertpustulka "robertpustulka (76 commits)")[![ADmad](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/142658?v=4)](https://github.com/ADmad "ADmad (1 commits)")

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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