What a timing! Soon both these minors will land as stable versions. CakePHP 3.7 Let’s talk about this minor first. RC-2 has just landed. The changelog towards master (3.6) shows, that the changes are not too much, it is basically…
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Middleware and CakePHP
I started to migrate some of my CakePHP 3.x apps to CakePHP 3.3 middleware and even tested 3.4 already back in 2016. Until then I didn’t even try the new PSR7 way. But it was about time I caught up…
CakePHP Tips Winter 2016
This is literally my last blog post for the year 2016 🙂 Use the right DateTime typehint If you are passing DateTime objects around in CakePHP, they are usually Chronos objects, and either \Cake\I18n\Time or \Cake\I18n\FrozenTime then. Both those are…
Templated emails in CakePHP
Quite a few years ago I wrote small wiki note about templated emails and inline images/CSS. I never really got around to blog about it, let alone covering the 3.x version of it. There was a ticket opened recently regarding…
Use 3.x Migrations for your 2.x CakePHP app
In this post I reveal one of my tricks on how to leverage 3.x power in a legacy 2.x project. You might have already read on how to use some of the splits, like the ORM, in 2.x projects. Today…
Developing CakePHP 3+ Plugins, it’s fun!
It is fun – and it should be! The days of CakePHP 2 plugins and how difficult it was to actually develop plugins are over. Back in the days (OK, I still have to do it once in a while),…
CakePHP Meetups
About Meetups are a great opportunity to get in touch with other companies or people that use CakePHP. It is a good place to share experiences and find people even that might have similar interests or who could even join…
CakePHP 3.0 Migration Notes
Trying to migrate my CakeFest app for this year’s event, I made some notes regarding the upgrade process from 2.x to 3.x. I completed them during the upgrade of my Sandbox app to 3.0. And adjusted them after RC2 and…
CakePHP 2.6 – and the end of the beginning
I was first thinking about the title "and the beginning of the end" – but that sounded a little bit too Armageddon. In fact, 2.x will probably still be around for years – and at least 2.7 will still be…
CakePHP 3.0 coming up
CakePHP version 3.0 is coming closer and closer to a stable release. The leap from PHP5.2 to PHP5.4 was more than necessary. Personally, I think, this will bring CakePHP back on the same level as "Laravel" or "Symfony2". Those, using…