Luminance plugin for CakePHP

Installation

You can install this plugin into your CakePHP application using composer.

The recommended way to install composer packages is:

composer require rindula/luminance

Setup

To activate the Plugin in CakePHP, you have to add the following to the end of config/bootstrap.php:

Plugin::load('Luminance');

In a View

To use this Helper in a view, you have two options:

1. Add the Helper to one Controller only

add the following code to your controller:

public $helpers = ['Luminance'];

2. Add it globally to your AppView

Add the following to the initialize method of src/View/AppView.php:

$this->loadHelper('Luminance.Luminance');

In a Controller

Add this to the initialize function of the Controller you need the Component in, below parent::initialize():

$this->loadComponent('Luminance.Luminance')

Usage

Once the respective setup is done you can use it like this:

View and Controller

$color = $this->Luminance->getContrastColor($hexColor);

$color then contains the hex color of the contrast color, which is either black (#000000) or white (#FFFFFF).