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…
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…
ACL – Access Control Lists – revised
With a focus on CakePHP application development. Authentication vs Authorization Those two are often confused. So here a little preface: Authentication always comes first. It is about whether you are logged in or not. At this point it is not…
Why CakePHP?
A Xmas post from Germany. My last 6 years with CakePHP I am now with CakePHP for over 6 years (wow.. time goes by!), the second half of it as core member. I started with it back in the days…
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…
UTF8 can be tricky – especially with PHP
Everybody uses (or should!) UTF8 these days. An easy and fully supporting PHP version I did not come across yet, though. It seems there is sometimes more to it. This article is supposed to guideline the basic setup of a…
All new CakePHP Tips Summer 2014
For CakePHP2.x Awesome CakePHP Check out this all new awesome CakePHP list: awesome-cakephp Star it, fork it, enhance it 🙂 Note the cake3 branch that will proabably soon be filled rapidly with all new shiny CakePHP3 resources and plugins. There…
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…