Are you planning to upgrade an existing app and DB from Mysql 5 to 8 any time soon? Well, if you do, maybe you want to read the next paragraphs. I had to do it, and let me tell you:…
Tag: Migration
CakePHP 5 upgrade guide
CakePHP 5 has just been released as 5.0.0. As it stabilizes, here already some tips and helpful tools to quickly update your app or plugin code. This aims to be a living doc on the process, so I will update…
CakePHP Tips 2015
Most tips are for 2.x and 3.x as they have been applied to both versions. Complex radio inputs A while back I posted a tip about deep array options for select input form fields. With my recent path for 2.6…
Migrating SVN apps to Git and Composer
Just recently I had to move a few remaining legacy CakePHP2.x apps from SVN to Git+Composer. This serves as a short how-to. You can also use this post if you are migrating a git app to a composer based git…
More great news: CakePHP 2.0 stable is out!
After 1.5 years of development, Cake catches up with other frameworks. It is now as modern as most of the others while remaining the most powerful of all. Almost none if its automatic got lost during the process of rewriting….