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CakePHP 5.4.0-RC2 just dropped. The final 5.4.0 will follow shortly, so now is the time to pull the release candidate into your apps and surface any regressions while they are still cheap to fix. This post highlights the changes that are most likely to show up in day-to-day code, with small, runnable examples. The full diff […]
Most applications eventually need a lightweight way for users to respond to content. A single like button works for some flows, ratings work for others, but there is a useful space in between: reactions. The dereuromark/cakephp-reactions plugin adds that layer to CakePHP applications. It lets users react to any model record with emoji literals such as 👍, ❤️, or 🚀, […]
For years, running PHPStan at level 8 on a CakePHP app meant making peace with a wall of missingType.generics and missingType.iterableValue warnings, or quietly silencing them in ignoreErrors. The ORM knew the entity type. The query knew its result type. PHPStan just could not see any of it. That era is over. As of CakePHP 5.3.6+ […]
Every CakePHP project I've ever opened has the same file. It's called something like MenuHelper.php or Navigation.php, it lives somewhere in src/View/Helper/, and it grows a new if ($this->request->getParam('controller') === ...) branch every quarter. By the time anyone notices, the helper is doing three jobs at once — declaring the tree, deciding which entry is […]
… and how we automated it in CakePHP Most security incidents do not start with a genius attacker. They start with an honest person who found something and could not figure out how to tell you. If reporting a bug is harder than tweeting about it, you have quietly chosen public disclosure for them. At the same time AI makes […]
A clean v2 API is coming dereuromark/cakephp-fixture-factories just shipped 2.0.0 RC. After a year of incremental cleanup — typed persistEntity() / persistEntities(), the TEntity template on BaseFactory, redirected deprecations — the next major was the right moment to redesign the surface coherently rather than keep layering. This post walks through the why, the what, and the how […]