Gersonfs, you will be able to replace that with query string params, Cake 3 
will change much anyway thus your app will need a big upgrade.

On Thursday, September 12, 2013 7:15:54 PM UTC+2, gersonfs wrote:
>
> Remove support for named parameters would not be nice to me. I have a lot 
> of code that makes use of this feature.
>
>
>
> Em quinta-feira, 5 de julho de 2012 23h36min03s UTC-3, José Lorenzo 
> escreveu:
>>
>> Since its creation, more than 7 years ago, CakePHP has grown with a life 
>> of its own. Its main goal has always been to empower developers with tools 
>> that are both easy to learn and use, leverage great libraries requiring low 
>> documentation and low dependencies too. We've had several big releases 
>> along these years and an ever growing community. Being one of the most 
>> popular frameworks out there and probably the first one (!) we have also 
>> gotten a lot of criticism from the developer community in general. We have, 
>> though, accepted it and learnt from our mistakes to keep building the best 
>> PHP framework there is.
>>
>> CakePHP is known for having a very slow pace of adopting new stuff and it 
>> has served very well to its community. Back when we were doing version 2.0 
>> we decided to hold on version 5.2 of PHP for multiple reasons and despite 
>> it didn't let us innovate as much as we wished to, it was an excellent 
>> choice given the general environment regarding hosting solutions and 
>> general adoption of PHP 5.3. A look back into the past reminded us that we 
>> were big innovators in PHP, bringing features to developers that few dreamt 
>> possible to do in this language. Now, it's time to look ahead in future and 
>> decide on staying in our comfort zone or take back our leading position as 
>> innovators.
>>
>> So it is with great excitement that we announce we are putting our our 
>> efforts in bringing you the next major release of CakePHP. Version 3.0 will 
>> leverage the new features in PHP 5.4 and will include an important change 
>> in our models and database system. CakePHP 3.0 will not be ready less than 
>> 6 or 8 months and we reckon that, given the rise of cheap cloud hosting 
>> solutions and upcoming release of new operating system versions, there is 
>> no better time to jump on the most current stable version of PHP.
>>
>> As you may already know, PHP 5.4 offers awesome features that would 
>> introduce useful new concepts and interesting solutions to old problems. 
>> Closure binding, traits, multibyte support are tools we see of great 
>> usefulness for properly implemented advanced framework features we've had 
>> in mind for a long time. Also new syntax sugar added to the language will 
>> make it more pleasant to write both small and complex applications with the 
>> framework and a always welcomed free performance increase.
>>
>> We have a young but already well defined road map for what we want to 
>> accomplish in next release and you are invited to contribute and suggest 
>> what's next:
>>
>>    - Drop support for 5.2.x and support 5.4+ only
>>    - Add proper namespaces for all classes. This will make it easier to 
>>    reuse classes outside CakePHP and to use external libraries and finally 
>> no 
>>    chances of collisions between your app classes and core ones.
>>    - Use traits were possible and makes sense
>>    - Improve bootstrapping process to allow more developer control and 
>>    better performance
>>    - Model layer rewrite:
>>       - Models to return objects from queries
>>       - Datamapper-like paradigm
>>       - Richer query API
>>       - Support for any database type
>>       - Support for more database drivers both PDO and native
>>    - Improve Router:
>>       - Make it faster
>>       - Remove named parameters
>>       - Add support for named routes
>>       - Smarter router prefixes
>>       - Shorter url syntax
>>    
>> As you may imagine most of the time will be spent or rewriting the model 
>> layer, but it will also be one of the most powerful features CakePHP 3.0 
>> will have. It's new architecture based on PHP 5.4 capabilities will offer 
>> an easier and more powerful set of tools to build web applications in no 
>> time.
>>
>> If you are already as excited as we are this all this new stuff coming, 
>> you definitely should meet us on next CakeFest <http://cakefest.org/> we'll 
>> be talking about the future of CakePHP and hacking our way through to bring 
>> you a dev release as soon as possible. Wouldn't it be lovely to attend to 
>> awesome talks, workshops and also be part of the group deciding initial 
>> architecture for next major version of the framework? Make sure you book 
>> your tickets before we run out of them!
>>
>> We're always looking for different people having a vision on software 
>> development, are you interested in helping out? There is no better time to 
>> start sending patches and become one of the core team!
>>
>

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