Text

class Cake\View\Helper\TextHelper(View $view, array $config = [])

The TextHelper contains methods to make text more usable and friendly in your views. It aids in enabling links, formatting URLs, creating excerpts of text around chosen words or phrases, highlighting key words in blocks of text, and gracefully truncating long stretches of text.

Linking Email addresses

method Cake\View\Helper\TextHelper::autoLinkEmails(string $text, array $options = [])

Adds links to the well-formed email addresses in $text, according to any options defined in $options (see HtmlHelper::link()). :

$myText = 'For more information regarding our world-famous ' .
    'pastries and desserts, contact [email protected]';
$linkedText = $this->Text->autoLinkEmails($myText);

Output:

For more information regarding our world-famous pastries and desserts,
contact <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>

This method automatically escapes its input. Use the escape option to disable this if necessary.

Linking URLs

method Cake\View\Helper\TextHelper::autoLinkUrls(string $text, array $options = [])

Same as autoLinkEmails(), only this method searches for strings that start with https, http, ftp, or nntp and links them appropriately.

This method automatically escapes its input. Use the escape option to disable this if necessary.

Linking Both URLs and Email Addresses

method Cake\View\Helper\TextHelper::autoLink(string $text, array $options = [])

Performs the functionality in both autoLinkUrls() and autoLinkEmails() on the supplied $text. All URLs and emails are linked appropriately given the supplied $options.

This method automatically escapes its input. Use the escape option to disable this if necessary.

Converting Text into Paragraphs

method Cake\View\Helper\TextHelper::autoParagraph(string $text)

Adds proper <p> around text where double-line returns are found, and <br> where single-line returns are found. :

$myText = 'For more information
regarding our world-famous pastries and desserts.

contact [email protected]';
$formattedText = $this->Text->autoParagraph($myText);

Output:

<p>For more information<br />
regarding our world-famous pastries and desserts.</p>
<p>contact [email protected]</p>