I must say: I have not been using them in the years of their existence in CakePHP 3+. But I now started and must say: They can sure be handy….I must say: I have not been using them in the…
Author: Mark
Test composer dependencies with prefer-lowest
This 4 year old post already blogged about it. Surprisingly many libraries still don’t use it in their CI system yet. The –prefer-lowest option has been added around that time….This 4 year old post already blogged about it. Surprisingly many…
CakePHP 3.7 and PHP 7.3
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,…What a timing! Soon both these minors will land as stable…
Tutorial: CakePHP & Tagging
This article mainly shows the power of a Rapid Development Framework like CakePHP. The full plugin documentation can be found directly in the repository. Let’s imagine we have some blog…This article mainly shows the power of a Rapid Development Framework…
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…I started to migrate some of my CakePHP 3.x apps to…
CakePHP 3.6 is coming
The first betas have landed already. Make your plugins and apps 3.6-ready now. It is actually rather easy – better to be proactive now and have a small migration path…The first betas have landed already. Make your plugins and apps…
CakePHP Tips 2017 Part 1
Whoops as ErrorHandler I recently switched to Whoops in my apps. It provides a better exception rendering for development mode for most cases. Just load the plugin (dereuromark/cakephp-whoops) and modify…Whoops as ErrorHandler I recently switched to Whoops in my apps….
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…This is literally my last blog post for the year 2016…
Emoji and CakePHP
You might think: Why do I care. Well, you would be surprised – but pretty much any website with at least one form on the page will be affected here….You might think: Why do I care. Well, you would be…
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…Quite a few years ago I wrote small wiki note about…