Sunday 2 October 2016

Migrate to CakePHP 3.0 for Agile Development

CakePHP is a well-known framework for PHP development and since its release, it has brought several   enhancements and new versions with additional features to make it better and more adaptive. Now, the CakePHP developers have additional potential with the Alpha release of CakePHP 3.0.



A short note to understand CakePHP

CakePHP is an extensive and widely used framework for PHP development, as it makes web development faster, lighter, cost-effective and requires less coding to the development of certain functions, and supports MVC (Model View Controller) architecture.

Let us find out, What's new in the CakePHP 3.0?

Here's the list of the latest changes and new features that CakePHP 3.0 carries:

1. Better Performance: CakePHP 3.0 has become better and have several performance enhancements incorporated into the code generation, flexible routing, improved compatibility of Bootstrap and CSS libraries, to generate templates.

2. Enhanced Features: In this latest version, some existing functions have been replaced with new ORM (Object-Relational Mapping) approach and improved functionality. It is also bundled with amazing features to improve the redundancy & make it more productive and accessible for developers, it also helps programmers to write codes faster.

3. Better Support: CakePHP Version 3.0 is also incorporated with an advanced support system and help in “Flash Messaging” with its new “Flash Helper” and “Flash Component”. It also consists an improved CookieComponent that can separately manage the cookie data and offer the users to separately manage the configuration of the cookies.

4. Powerful Session Management: In CakePHP environment, static class in session management is always a hurdle for developers in different ways while implementing. But version 3 makes it easier and lets you access the session from the request object $this->request->session().

5. Robust Debugging Toolbar: Debugging kit gets refurbished in version 3.0 and has more features for debugging your developed application. The new debugging tool can be installed dynamically in the latest version of the CakePHP module .

6. Improved Migrations: An improved and outstanding migration plugin supported by Phinx allows you to easily make and distribute migrations for your application. Migrations have become easier and less complex as compared to the previous versions.

Minimum requirements for the CakePHP are:

  • PHP 5.4.16 or greater.
  • mbstring extension
  • intl extension

Conclusion: When it comes to the latest version of the CakePHP 3.0, it has multiple enhancements and dynamic features. CakePHP development Services has the ability to make your business website exceptional that enables you to drive your business smoothly even in today's cutting throat scenario.