Craft

Type

Class

Inherits

Craft » Yii

Since

3.0.0

Craft is helper class serving common Craft and Yii framework functionality.

It encapsulates \Yii and ultimately yii\BaseYii, which provides the actual implementation.

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Public Methods

Method	Description
autoload()	Class autoloader.
cookieConfig()	Generates and returns a cookie config.
createGuzzleClient()	Creates a Guzzle client configured with the given array merged with any default values in config/guzzle.php.
createObject()
dd()	Displays a variable and ends the request. (“Dump and die”)
dump()	Displays a variable.
getAlias()
parseBooleanEnv()	Checks if a string references an environment variable ($VARIABLE_NAME) and returns the referenced boolean value, or null if a boolean value can’t be determined.
parseEnv()	Checks if a string references an environment variable ($VARIABLE_NAME) and/or an alias (@aliasName), and returns the referenced value.

autoload()

Class autoloader.

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Arguments

• $className (string)

cookieConfig()

Generates and returns a cookie config.

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Arguments

• $config (array) – Any config options that should be included in the config.
• $request (\Request, null) – The request object

Returns

array – The cookie config array.

createGuzzleClient()

Creates a Guzzle client configured with the given array merged with any default values in config/guzzle.php.

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Arguments

• $config (array) – Guzzle client config settings

Returns

\Client

createObject()

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Arguments

• $type (string, array, callable)
• $params (array)

Returns

\T

dd()

Displays a variable and ends the request. (“Dump and die”)

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Arguments

• $var (mixed) – The variable to be dumped.
• $depth (integer) – The maximum depth that the dumper should go into the variable.
• $highlight (boolean) – Whether the result should be syntax-highlighted.

Throws

• \ExitException
  if the application is in testing mode

dump()

Displays a variable.

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Arguments

• $var (mixed) – The variable to be dumped.
• $depth (integer) – The maximum depth that the dumper should go into the variable.
• $highlight (boolean) – Whether the result should be syntax-highlighted.
• $return (boolean) – Whether the dump result should be returned instead of output.

Returns

string, null – The output, if $return is true

getAlias()

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Arguments

• $alias
• $throwException

parseBooleanEnv()

DEPRECATED

Deprecated in 3.7.29. App::parseBooleanEnv() should be used instead.

Since

3.7.22

Checks if a string references an environment variable ($VARIABLE_NAME) and returns the referenced boolean value, or null if a boolean value can’t be determined.

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Arguments

• $value (mixed)

Returns

boolean, null

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Example

php

$status = Craft::parseBooleanEnv('$SYSTEM_STATUS') ?? false;

parseEnv()

DEPRECATED

Deprecated in 3.7.29. App::parseEnv() should be used instead.

Since

3.1.0

Checks if a string references an environment variable ($VARIABLE_NAME) and/or an alias (@aliasName), and returns the referenced value.

If the string references an environment variable with a value of true or false, a boolean value will be returned.

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Arguments

• $str (string, null)

Returns

string, null, false – The parsed value, or the original value if it didn’t reference an environment variable or alias.

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Example

php

$value1 = Craft::parseEnv('$SMTP_PASSWORD');
$value2 = Craft::parseEnv('@webroot');

Constants

Constant	Description
Pro
Solo