Motivations and path to CakePHP 2.0

1. Re-imagining
CakePHP
The path to CakePHP 2.0

2. Graham Weldon
@predominant
graham.weldon@cakedc.com
http://cakedc.com
http://grahamweldon.com
Jester

3. Motivations
Love CakePHP
Hate doing repetitive code
An educator

4. PHP
Support
Adios PHP 4

5. PHP Support
Dropping PHP 4 support
Supporting PHP 5.2 and above

6. Shortcuts
Removed: PHP5 constant
e()
a()
aa()
r()
ife()
params()
up()
low()

7. Unit
Testing
Out with the SimpleTest
In with the PHPUnit

8. Unit Testing
Arguably one of the bigger changes
Enables better PHP 5 support
More actively maintained
Easily integrated with CruiseControl
De-facto PHP standard for Unit Testing
Install PHPUnit with PEAR
Faster

9. Unit Testing
PHPUnit, at what cost?
No more group tests
Mocks are different.. but awesome++
startTest() and endTest() deprecated
.. thats about it.

10. Collections
Organising

11. Collections
Behaviors
Components
Helpers
Shells

12. SPL
Replacing what we can

13. SPL
Standard PHP Library
Provides awesome File and Folder
operations
Classes handy for a whole range of things
No need to re-implement in the core
CakePHP 1.x was ahead of its time
PHP has caught up
Time to cut the fat

14. Exceptions

15. Exceptions
Using exceptions to indicate errors in the
core
Easier to control
More “OO”
Removing cakeError

16. Request / Response
Request represents an incoming request
It replaces functionality through Controller,
Dispatcher, RequestHandler and $this-
>params everywhere
ArrayAccess implementation for backwards
compatibility

17. Sessions

18. Sessions
Remove duplicated code (DRY)
Shouldn’t be always included (1.3 fix)
Modelise data handling
Access anywhere
Allow simple customisation
Separate Caching, Database, etc.

19. Sessions

20. Sessions
SessionHandler
Database Cache PHP

21. Sessions
SessionHandler
Database Cache PHP

22. Sessions
SessionHandler
Database Cache PHP
Your Crazy Engine

23. Sessions
SessionHandler
Database Cache PHP
Cake
Session
Your Crazy Engine Handler
Interface

24. Hang on!
That looks familiar

25. Javascript (v1.3)
JavascriptHelper
jQuery Prototype Mootools

26. Javascript (v1.3)
JavascriptHelper
jQuery Prototype Mootools

27. Javascript (v1.3)
JavascriptHelper
jQuery Prototype Mootools
Your Super Engine

28. Javascript (v1.3)
JavascriptHelper
jQuery Prototype Mootools
Your Super Engine
JsBaseEngineHelper

29. Lazy
Loading

30. Lazy Loading
Nested Objects (some of them)
Components
Helpers
Tasks
Cheap Optimisation

31. XML
Making it make sense!

32. XML
As much as one can make XML make sense..
.. we’re doing it
1.x was very CakePHP specific with XML
Wasn’t handy for integration
Didn’t handle namespaces well
Didn’t allow for ordered nodes
Build on top of SimpleXML

33. Getting
feedback

34. I can has?
No.
Well.. Yes.
But no.

35. Beta

36. Beta

37. Beta
Alpha?

38. Beta
Alpha?

39. Beta
Alpha?
Dev

40. Beta
Alpha?
Dev

41. Beta
Alpha?
Dev
... runs?

42. Beta
Most of the
Alpha? time.. Depends
on the progress.
Dev
... runs?