Class TableHelper
Create a visually pleasing ASCII art table from 2 dimensional array data.
- Cake\Console\Helper uses Cake\Core\InstanceConfigTrait
-  Cake\Shell\Helper\TableHelper 
Properties summary
-  $_defaultConfigprotectedDefault config for this helper.array
Inherited Properties
Method Summary
-  _addStyle() protectedAdd style tags
-  _calculateWidths() protectedCalculate the column widths
-  _render() protectedOutput a row.
-  _rowSeparator() protectedOutput a row separator.
-  output() publicOutput a table.
Method Detail
_addStyle()source protected
_addStyle( string $text , string $style )
Add style tags
Parameters
-  string $text
- The text to be surrounded
-  string $style
- The style to be applied
Returns
string_calculateWidths()source protected
_calculateWidths( array $rows )
Calculate the column widths
Parameters
-  array $rows
- The rows on which the columns width will be calculated on.
Returns
array_render()source protected
_render( array $row , array $widths , array $options [] )
Output a row.
Parameters
-  array $row
- The row to output.
-  array $widths
- The widths of each column to output.
-  array $optionsoptional []
- Options to be passed.
_rowSeparator()source protected
_rowSeparator( array $widths )
Output a row separator.
Parameters
-  array $widths
- The widths of each column to output.
output()source public
output( array $rows )
Output a table.
Data will be output based on the order of the values in the array. The keys will not be used to align data.
Parameters
-  array $rows
- The data to render out.
Methods inherited from Cake\Console\Helper
__construct()source public
__construct( Cake\Console\ConsoleIo $io , array $config [] )
Constructor.
Parameters
-  Cake\Console\ConsoleIo$io
- The ConsoleIo instance to use.
-  array $configoptional []
- The settings for this helper.
Methods used from Cake\Core\InstanceConfigTrait
_configDelete()source protected
_configDelete( string $key )
Deletes a single config key.
Parameters
-  string $key
- Key to delete.
Throws
Cake\Core\Exception\Exceptionif attempting to clobber existing config
_configRead()source protected
_configRead( string|null $key )
Reads a config key.
Parameters
-  string|null $key
- Key to read.
Returns
mixed_configWrite()source protected
_configWrite( string|array $key , mixed $value , boolean|string $merge false )
Writes a config key.
Parameters
-  string|array $key
- Key to write to.
-  mixed $value
- Value to write.
-  boolean|string $mergeoptional false
- True to merge recursively, 'shallow' for simple merge, false to overwrite, defaults to false. 
Throws
Cake\Core\Exception\Exceptionif attempting to clobber existing config
config()source public
config( string|array|null $key null , mixed|null $value null , boolean $merge true )
Gets/Sets the config.
Usage
Reading the whole config:
$this->config();
Reading a specific value:
$this->config('key'); Reading a nested value:
$this->config('some.nested.key'); Setting a specific value:
$this->config('key', $value); Setting a nested value:
$this->config('some.nested.key', $value); Updating multiple config settings at the same time:
$this->config(['one' => 'value', 'another' => 'value']);
Deprecated
3.4.0 use setConfig()/getConfig() instead.Parameters
-  string|array|null $keyoptional null
- The key to get/set, or a complete array of configs.
-  mixed|null $valueoptional null
- The value to set.
-  boolean $mergeoptional true
- Whether to recursively merge or overwrite existing config, defaults to true.
Returns
mixedConfig value being read, or the object itself on write operations.
Throws
Cake\Core\Exception\ExceptionWhen trying to set a key that is invalid.
configShallow()source public
configShallow( string|array $key , mixed|null $value null )
Merge provided config with existing config. Unlike config() which does a recursive merge for nested keys, this method does a simple merge.
Setting a specific value:
$this->configShallow('key', $value); Setting a nested value:
$this->configShallow('some.nested.key', $value); Updating multiple config settings at the same time:
$this->configShallow(['one' => 'value', 'another' => 'value']);
Parameters
-  string|array $key
- The key to set, or a complete array of configs.
-  mixed|null $valueoptional null
- The value to set.
Returns
$this
getConfig()source public
getConfig( string|null $key null , mixed $default null )
Returns the config.
Usage
Reading the whole config:
$this->getConfig();
Reading a specific value:
$this->getConfig('key'); Reading a nested value:
$this->getConfig('some.nested.key'); Reading with default value:
$this->getConfig('some-key', 'default-value'); Parameters
-  string|null $keyoptional null
- The key to get or null for the whole config.
-  mixed $defaultoptional null
- The return value when the key does not exist.
Returns
mixedConfig value being read.
setConfig()source public
setConfig( string|array $key , mixed|null $value null , boolean $merge true )
Sets the config.
Usage
Setting a specific value:
$this->setConfig('key', $value); Setting a nested value:
$this->setConfig('some.nested.key', $value); Updating multiple config settings at the same time:
$this->setConfig(['one' => 'value', 'another' => 'value']);
Parameters
-  string|array $key
- The key to set, or a complete array of configs.
-  mixed|null $valueoptional null
- The value to set.
-  boolean $mergeoptional true
- Whether to recursively merge or overwrite existing config, defaults to true.
Returns
$this
Throws
Cake\Core\Exception\ExceptionWhen trying to set a key that is invalid.
Properties detail
$_defaultConfigsource
protected array
Default config for this helper.
[
    'headers' => true,
    'rowSeparator' => false,
    'headerStyle' => 'info',
] 
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