Working with decimals in PHP apps

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DB Basics Let’s talk about some of the basics first. float vs decimal In general, floating-point values are usually stored as float in the database. In earlier versions of databases they also often had precision/scale (e.g. float(5,2) for values like…

CakePHP 3.0 coming up

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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…