Helpers

Kohana comes with many static "helper" functions to make certain tasks easier.

You can make your own helpers by simply making a class and putting it in the classes directory, and you can also extend any helper to modify or add new functions using transparent extension.

• Arr - Array functions. Get an array key or default to a set value, get an array key by path, etc.

• CLI - Parse command line options.

• Cookie - Covered in more detail on the Cookies page.

• Date - Useful date functions and constants. Time between two dates, convert between am/pm and military, date offset, etc.

• Encrypt - Covered in more detail on the Security page.

• Feed - Parse and create RSS feeds.

• File - Get file type by mime, split and merge a file into small pieces.

• Form - Create HTML form elements.

• Fragment - Simple file based caching. Covered in more detail on the Fragments page.

• HTML - Useful HTML functions. Encode, obfuscate, create script, anchor, and image tags, etc.

• I18n - Internationalization helper for creating multilanguage sites.

• Inflector - Change a word into plural or singular form, camelize or humanize a phrase, etc.

• Kohana - The Kohana class is also a helper. Debug variables (like print_r but better), file loading, etc.

• Num - Provides locale aware formating and english ordinals (th, st, nd, etc).

• Profiler - Covered in more detail on the Profiling page.

• Remote - Remote server access helper using CURL.

• Request - Get the current request url, create expire tags, send a file, get the user agent, etc.

• Route - Create routes, create an internal link using a route.

• Security - Covered in more detail on the Security page.

• Session - Covered in more detail on the Sessions page.

• Text - Autolink, prevent window words, convert a number to text, etc.

• URL - Create a relative or absolute URL, make a URL-safe title, etc.

• UTF8 - Provides multi-byte aware string functions like strlen, strpos, substr, etc.

• Upload - Helper for uploading files from a form.