/Croogo/Model/Behavior/ParamsBehavior.php

<?php

App::uses('ModelBehavior', 'Model');
App::uses('StringConverter', 'Croogo.Utility');

/**
 * Params Behavior
 *
 * @category Behavior
 * @package  Croogo.Croogo.Model.Behavior
 * @since    1.3.1
 * @author   Fahad Ibnay Heylaal <contact@fahad19.com>
 * @license  http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php The MIT License
 * @link     http://www.croogo.org
 */
class ParamsBehavior extends ModelBehavior {

/**
 * Setup
 *
 * @param Model $model
 * @param array $config
 * @return void
 */
	public function setup(Model $model, $config = array()) {
		if (is_string($config)) {
			$config = array($config);
		}

		$this->settings[$model->alias] = $config;
	}

/**
 * afterFind callback
 *
 * @param Model $model
 * @param array $created
 * @param boolean $primary
 * @return array
 */
	public function afterFind(Model $model, $results, $primary = false) {
		if ($primary && isset($results[0][$model->alias])) {
			foreach ($results as $i => $result) {
				$params = array();
				if (isset($result[$model->alias]['params']) && strlen($result[$model->alias]['params']) > 0) {
					$params = $this->paramsToArray($model, $result[$model->alias]['params']);
				}
				$results[$i]['Params'] = $params;
			}
		} elseif (isset($results[$model->alias])) {
			$params = array();
			if (isset($results[$model->alias]['params']) && strlen($results[$model->alias]['params']) > 0) {
				$params = $this->paramsToArray($model, $results[$model->alias]['params']);
			}
			$results['Params'] = $params;
		}

		return $results;
	}

/**
 * Converts a string of params to an array of formatted key/value pairs
 *
 * String is supposed to have one parameter per line in the format:
 * my_param_key=value_here
 * another_param=another_value
 *
 * @param Model $model
 * @param string $params
 * @return array
 */
	public function paramsToArray(Model $model, $params) {
		$converter = new StringConverter();
		$output = array();
		$params = preg_split('/[\r\n]+/', $params);
		foreach ($params as $param) {
			if (strlen($param) == 0) {
				continue;
			}

			if ($param[0] === '[') {
				$options = $converter->parseString('options', $param, array(
					'convertOptionsToArray' => true,
				));
				if (!empty($options)) {
					$output = array_merge($output, $options);
				}
				continue;
			}

			$paramE = explode('=', $param);
			if (count($paramE) == 2) {
				$key = $paramE['0'];
				$value = $paramE['1'];
				$output[$key] = trim($value);
			}
		}
		return $output;
	}

}