Re-imaginging CakePHP

Re-imagining CakePHP The path to CakePHP 2.0

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

Motivations Love CakePHP Hate doing repetitive code An educator

PHP Support Adios PHP 4

PHP Support Dropping PHP 4 support Supporting PHP 5.2 and above

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

Unit Testing Out with the SimpleTest In with the PHPUnit

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

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

Collections Organising

Collections Behaviors Components Helpers Shells

SPL Replacing what we can

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

Exceptions

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

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

Sessions

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.

Sessions

Sessions SessionHandler Database Cache PHP

Sessions SessionHandler Database Cache PHP Your Crazy Engine

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

Hang on! That looks familiar

Javascript (v1.3) JavascriptHelper jQuery Prototype Mootools

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

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

Lazy Loading

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

XML Making it make sense!

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

Getting feedback

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

Beta Alpha?

Beta Alpha? Dev

Beta Alpha? Dev ... runs?

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

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Re-imaginging CakePHP

by Graham Weldon on Sep 04, 2010

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