Question

As an exercise i want to create a component for CakePHP framework.
I have been thinking about creating a URL component to deal with all the URLs stuff.

I was thinking about this methods:

• getRealURL($shortedURL)
• getDomain($url)
• isSecure($url)
• getProtocol($url)
• getPort($url)
• getExtension($url)
• getShortURL($url)
• isYoutubeVideo($url)
• getParam($url, $var)
• getNumberOfParams($url)
• getParams($url, $vars)
• isImage($url)
• getURLFromText($text)
• eraseURlsFromText($text)
• shortURLsFromText($text)

What do you think about it?
Any other ideas for the component?
Do you think the last 3 ones should not be in this component?

Any other suggestions will be welcome 🙂

Thanks.

Answer 1

This is a wild mix of things that are already available (port, url, ssl, params, protocol,… see response/request objects) and some really non-common things that should not go into the core of the framework.

Also this should not be a component, actually none of it, but in fact behaviors and helpers.

So if you want to do it create a plugin on github and publish it there.