Adding App::themePath(). Will be used to reduce code duplication in a variety of places.

Author: markstory

cake/libs/configure.php

@@ -702,7 +702,7 @@ function build($paths = array(), $reset = false) {
 /**
  * Get the path that a plugin is on.  Searches through the defined plugin paths.
  *
- * @param string $plugin CamelCased plugin name to find the path of.
+ * @param string $plugin CamelCased/lower_cased plugin name to find the path of.
  * @return string full path to the plugin.
  */
 	function pluginPath($plugin) {
@@ -716,6 +716,23 @@ function pluginPath($plugin) {
 		return $_this->plugins[0] . $pluginDir . DS;
 	}
 
+/**
+ * Find the path that a theme is on.  Search through the defined theme paths.
+ *
+ * @param string $theme lower_cased theme name to find the path of.
+ * @return string full path to the theme.
+ */
+	function themePath($theme) {
+		$_this =& App::getInstance();
+		$themeDir = 'themed' . DS . Inflector::underscore($theme);
+		for ($i = 0, $length = count($_this->views); $i < $length; $i++) {
+			if (is_dir($_this->views[$i] . $themeDir)) {
+				return $_this->views[$i] . $themeDir . DS ;
+			}
+		}
+		return $_this->views[0] . $themeDir . DS;
+	}
+
 /**
  * Returns a key/value list of all paths where core libs are found.
  * Passing $type only returns the values for a given value of $key.

cake/tests/cases/libs/configure.test.php

@@ -460,6 +460,26 @@ function testPluginPath() {
 		App::build();
 	}
 
+/**
+ * test that pluginPath can find paths for plugins.
+ *
+ * @return void
+ */
+	function testThemePath() {
+		App::build(array(
+			'views' => array(TEST_CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH . 'tests' . DS . 'test_app' . DS . 'views' . DS)
+		));
+		$path = App::themePath('test_theme');
+		$expected = TEST_CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH . 'tests' . DS . 'test_app' . DS . 'views' . DS . 'themed' . DS . 'test_theme' . DS;
+		$this->assertEqual($path, $expected);
+
+		$path = App::themePath('TestTheme');
+		$expected = TEST_CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH . 'tests' . DS . 'test_app' . DS . 'views' . DS . 'themed' . DS . 'test_theme' . DS;
+		$this->assertEqual($path, $expected);
+
+		App::build();
+	}
+
 /**
  * testClassLoading method
  *