Utility Functions

This chapter contains short introductions to helpful utility functions available in Flow. Please see the API documentation for a full reference:

• Neos\Utility\ObjectAccess should be used to get/set properties on objects, arrays and similar structures.

• Neos\Utility\Arrays contains some array helper functions for merging arrays or creating them from strings.

• Neos\Utility\Files contains functions for manipulating files and directories, and for unifying file access across the different platforms.

• Neos\Utility\MediaTypes contains a list of internet media types and their corresponding file types, and can be used to map between them.

• Neos\Flow\Utility\Now is a singleton DateTime class containing the current time. It should always be used when you need access to the current time.