WHAT KEPT US BUSY A
QUICK SUMMARY OF A YEAR WORKING IN CAKEPHP CakeFest 2013 @jose_zap

CAKEPHP IS COMMUNITY DRIVEN This
is both good and bad. There is a slower pace in what we do, but the result is a consequence of what the community is actually asking for based of the collective input.

WE GROW OLDER, BUT WISER
In general, people working in any organization...

JOIN

GET PASSIONATE ABOUT IT

GET EXPERIENCE

GET BORED

GET MARRIED, HAVE CHILDREN

BECOME BUSIER

AND SOME... LEAVE (sad panda
face)

THE CORE TEAM HAVE A
CONSTANT DREAM AND A PASSION TO MAKE THINGS BETTER

THIS IS A SUMMARY OF
THE THINGS WE DREAMT ABOUT and made its way into the code

HELLO PHP 5.4

NAMESPACES We hate (wrong slash)
but we finally converted the virtual packages into namespaces if (strpos($class, '') !== false) Yes, we'll keep using the plugin syntax and save from writing things like that

NEW UNIFIED CONFIG Configuration is
passed directly to the classes that are interested about them Bye, Bye DATABASE_CONFIG

COMPOSER SUPPORT OUT OF THE
BOX

FASTER, BETTER ROUTER Reverse routing
got extremely fast and now it is possible to have named routes!

ROUTING PREFIXES USING NAMESPACES Instead
of UsersController::admin_index() you will have a separate AdminUsersController::index()

FASTER, CONSISTENT AND LEANER EVENT
MANAGER

FEATURE RICH HTTPSOCKET CLASS

NEW QUERY BUILDER Create queries
using a fluent interface with automatic type conversion $union = (new Query($connection)) ->select(['id', 'title']) ->from(['a' => 'articles']); $results = (new Query($connection)) ->select(['id', 'comment']) ->from(['c' => 'comments']) ->where(['created >=', new DateTime('1 day ago')]) ->union($union) ->execute();

SMART SQL DIALECT TRANSLATION You
can use this in both PostgreSQL and MySQL $query = (new Query($connection))->select(function($q) { return [ 'id', 'full_name' => $q->concat(['first_name', ' ', 'last_name']) ] });

SMART ASSOCIATION EAGER LOADING This
will use a single query $table = Table::build('author'); $table->hasMany('article', [ 'property' => 'articles', 'strategy' => 'subquery', 'sort' => ['article.id' => 'asc'] ]); $results = $table->find('all')->contain('article')->toArray();

CHAINABLE CUSTOM FINDERS
Woot!?
$articles->latest()->popular()->list()->toArray();

RESULT STREAMING

STOPPABLE FINDS Before find callbacks
can stop the query from being executed and return cached results

MAP-REDUCE

SCHEMA MIGRATIONS

AND MUCH, MUCH MORE

WELCOME TO CAKEFEST This is
the right place to figure out where we are heading