Excellent work guys. It's been great following the progress of this new major release. For all the challenges & frustrations (of my own making), i'm glad i picked Cake as a learning experience. The framework & the team are awesome. -Joe T.
On Sunday, 28 September 2014 09:49:02 UTC-4, José Lorenzo wrote: > > The CakePHP core team is proud to announce the second beta release for > CakePHP > 3.0.0 <https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/releases/3.0.0-beta2>. > It's been a month since our first beta release, and we are excited by the > big welcome the community has given to the new version. All the positive > feedback and help has been a great motivation for the core team to work > harder on improving the developer experience for 3.0. > > This will be the last beta release for 3.0, this means that the API is > already stabilizing and we're mostly focusing on polishing the current > features, performance optimizations, documentation and quickly solving any > issues reported in Github. > > We've had a very busy month implementing a few missing features we had in > our roadmap and upgrading some of the popular plugins for CakePHP. > > Below the list of new features and changes that made it into 3.0.0-beta2: > DebugKit > > Debugging CakePHP 3.0 applications is even better. The new DebugKit is > easier to install, faster and looks gorgeous. > > DebugKit is a application toolbar that collects useful statistics about > your code such as time and memory, executed queries, log messages and view > variables. To install Debugkit just use > > composer require cakephp/debug_kit "3.0.*-dev" > > And add this line to your bootstrap.php file: > > Plugin::load('DebugKit', ['bootstrap' => true]); > > If you install a new application using the app skeleton > <https://github.com/cakephp/app>, DebugKit will be automatically > installed for you. > Database Migrations > > Migrations <https://github.com/cakephp/collection> is now an official > CakePHP plugin. It wraps the excellent Phinx <http://phinx.org/> library > into a CakePHP shell to avoid repeating configuration strings and add some > of the cake experience. A database migration generated by this plugin would > look like: > > <?phpuse Phinx\Migration\AbstractMigration;class CreateUsersTable extends > AbstractMigration { > /** * Change. */ > public function change() { > // create the table > $table = $this->table('users'); > $table->addColumn('id', 'integer') > ->addColumn('username', 'string') > ->addColumn('password', 'string') > ->addColumn('created', 'datetime') > ->create(); > } > > Migrations are reversible. This means that with the same code you can > create or rollback the changes done to the database schema. > > To install the Migrations plugins run: > > composer require cakephp/migrations "dev-master" > > And add this line to your bootstrap.php file: > > Plugin::load('Migrations'); > > New Logger interface > > CakePHP has adopted the PSR-3 recommendation for loggers. Now all log > engines implement the Prs\Log\LoggerInterface interface. This means that > the entire logging system can easily be replaced by other implementations, > such as the popular Monolog library <https://github.com/Seldaek/monolog>. > Integration Tests and Data Integrity > > Testing controllers has always been problematic. While ControllerTestCase > solved some of the problems, we identified this class as a source of > problems and confusion among our users. We decided to implement the new > IntegrationTestCase class as a way totest all aspects of an HTTP request > in your application without much mocking being involved. This should help > you improve code quality and ensure that your application and routes are > working as expected. > > We also made the fixtures system better, allowing developers to define and > work with foreign key constraints in their database. The fixtures system > will now correctly load all data and enable constraints right before your > test code is executed. > New Bake templates > > With the date for a stable release getting closer and closer we decided to > give a new look to default baked applications. Hopefully the new look will > feel fresher, more modern, and easier to work with. > Separate packages > > We've seen an increasing interest in using the new ORM outside the > framework or within older CakePHP applications. One of our goals since the > start has been making this possible. We have already begun the work to > split the framework into various standalone components that can be reused > and installed with composer. While the ORM has not yet been extracted into > its own repository, most of the necessary pre-requisites are complete. As a > product of this work, we have already extracted several components out of > the main code base: > > - Collections <https://github.com/cakephp/collection>: Provides a set > of tools to manipulate arrays or Traversable objects in an efficient and > elegant way. > - Validation <https://github.com/cakephp/validation>: The excellent > and flexible validation library can now be used in any project! > - Utility <https://github.com/cakephp/utility>: Provides the Hash, > Inflector, String and Xml classes. > - Event <https://github.com/cakephp/event>: Our Signal-Slot (or > Observer Pattern) implementation. > - Core <https://github.com/cakephp/core>: The CakePHP core, containing > the Configuration and Plugin management classes. > > It is important to note that the these repositories are read-only, > development will continue in the main CakePHP repository and code will be > synchronized regularly to these splits. Please open any ticket or pull > request directly in the main github repository > <https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp>. > ORM Related Improvements > > - Added Query::autoFields(). This controls whether the fields for the > main table are automatically selected. > - Ability to pass finder options to custom finders from the paginator > by using the finderOptions key. > - It is now possible to get the default column values out of the > database using the Schema\Table::defaultValue(). > - Added accessibleFields as an option key for newEntity() and > patchEntity(). This will allow finer grain control for mass-assignment. > - TranslateBehavior automatically finds translations based on the > current application locale. > - Table::findOrCreate() was added. > - Ability to override the join type for an association using contain() > > Plugin Shells > > Shells in plugins can now be called without prefixing with the plugin > name. For example for a do_stuff shell living in the Tools plugin, you > can execute: > > bin/cake do_stuff > > Other improvements > > - New uploadedFile validation rule. > - Made String::uuid() 3 times faster. > - Better exception reporting on fatal errors. > - Inflector was optimized for better performance. > - Several optimizations in the Hash class. > - Added Collection::buffered() to transform non-rewindable iterators > in rewindable ones. > > Community Plugins > > More plugins for version 3.0 are starting to pop. Here's a list of what we > found interesting: > > - TwigView <https://github.com/WyriHaximus/TwigView> Use Twig as the > default templating engine. > - Imagine <https://github.com/burzum/cakephp-imagine-plugin/tree/3.0> > Image manipulation plugin > - Geo <https://github.com/dereuromark/cakephp-geo> Contains utility > libraries and behaviors for working with geo data. > - Blame <https://github.com/ceeram/blame> Records the user id who > modified a row in the database. > - CakePdf <https://github.com/FriendsOfCake/CakePdf/tree/3.0> > Generates PDF files using different engines > - Authenticate > <https://github.com/FriendsOfCake/Authenticate/tree/cake3> > Authorization and Authentication adapters > - TinyAuth <https://github.com/dereuromark/cakephp-tinyauth> A > lightweight authorization system. > - TwitterBootstrap <https://github.com/gourmet/twitter_bootstrap> A > plugin to generate Boostraped interfaces > - Whoops <https://github.com/gourmet/whoops> Replaces the default > exception renderer with a nice debugging interface. > - Assetic <https://github.com/gourmet/assetic> Minifies and > pre-processes CSS and Javascript We'd like to thank again everyone who has > contributed thoughts, code, documentation or feedback to 3.0 so far. > > -- Like Us on FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/CakePHP Find us on Twitter http://twitter.com/CakePHP --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. 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