The document summarizes updates and new features for CakePHP version 3.0 and beyond. It discusses the large number of breaking changes in 3.0.0, challenges with upgrading, and areas that went well like community involvement and documentation. It outlines the future release schedule and previews some new features including mailers, console improvements, ORM enhancements, ElasticSearch integration, and PSR-7 support. It notes efforts to maintain backwards compatibility within the 3.x series and questions about supporting older PHP versions. The document encourages community involvement to help with upcoming CakePHP releases.

1. 3.0.0 & Beyond

2. May 15, 2005

3. 3.0.0
March 22 2015

4. Some Things Could
Have Been Better

5. 3 Years is a Long
Time

6. Lots of Breaking
Changes
The most we’ve ever had.

7. Upgrading is Hard

8. Missing Datasource
Examples

9. Some Things Went
Really Well

10. Community
Involvement
From the very first dev release, the
community was helping.

11. Documentation
Complete on Day 0

12. 80K Downloads
in 2 Months

13. The new ORM is
Awesome
We can thank Jose Lorenzo

14. So, Now What?

15. 2.7.x
July 2015

16. 3.1.x
July 2015

17. 3.2.x
January 2016

18. Mailers
Simple conventions for emails.

19. Mailers
namespace AppController;
use CakeMailerMailerAwareTrait;
class UsersController extends AppController
{
use MailerAwareTrait;
public function register()
{
...
$this->getMailer('User')->send('welcome', [$user]);
}
}

20. Console
Improvements
More formatting options

21. Shell Helpers
$func = function ($progress) {
// Do work
$progress->increment();
};
$this->helper(‘progress’)->output($func);
$progress = $this->helper('progress');
// Progress through 300 things
$progress->init(['total' => 300]);
$progress->increment($i);
$progress->draw();

22. ORM Improvements
More ways to load relations

23. ORM Improvements
// Lazy eager loading
$articles = $this->Articles->find()->all();
$enrichedArticles = $this->Articles->eagerLoad(
$articles,
['Users', 'Tags']
);
// Not matching - find bookmarks not tagged with X
$query = $this->Bookmarks->find()
->notMatching('Tags', function ($q) {
return $q->where(['Tags.name' => 'Awesome']);
});

24. ElasticSearch
A fully featured ODM

25. ElasticSearch
use CakeElasticSearchType;
$invoices = new Type('invoices');
$query = $invoices->find()
->where([
'name.first' => 'jose',
'age >' => 29,
'or' => [
'tags in' => ['cake', 'php'],
'interests not in' => ['c#', 'java']
]
]);

26. PSR-7
Http Client and Middleware

27. Continuous Plugin
Releases
Bake, DebugKit, Migrations, ElasticSearch

28. Backwards
Compatible
All the way through 3.x

29. Backwards
Compatible
• Public methods won’t change their signatures.
• Public properties will continue to be available.
• Protected methods may change signatures.
• Protected properties may change.

30. Upcoming Releases

31. What about PHP5.5?
Or 5.6?

32. 4.0

33. Cleanup
Remove deprecated features.

34. PHP7
Typehints, return values

35. You can Help

36. Thanks!