by Lee Forkenbrock | Jul 21, 2015 | CakePHP Development
I presented a talk at CakeFest 2015 about CakePHP configuration by extracting the differences in your app that are unique to each operating environment out into config files and I wanted to sum up the approach here. There is a repo available with sample CakePHP 3 /...
by Lee Forkenbrock | Apr 16, 2015 | CakePHP Development
One of the key goals of CakePHP 3 as discussed recently was making CakePHP 3 more decoupled. CakePHP 3 has achieved that goal very nicely. Take a look at the CakePHP organization’s repos on GitHub and you will find a long list of decoupled collections of classes...
by Lee Forkenbrock | Nov 18, 2014 | CakePHP Development
CakePHP 3.0 is currently in the second Beta, so today we will go over the goals of CakePHP 3.0, some of the major changes and how you should start using it. Goals of CakePHP 3 What are the goals of CakePHP 3? This is actually the easiest question to answer. The Cake...
by Lee Forkenbrock | Apr 2, 2014 | CakePHP Development
If you are working with a CakePHP application and you’re about to add a new “feature,” you may be considering making it a Plugin. There are a lot of benefits to Cake plugins, including containing the feature all in one place and making it reusable...
by Lee Forkenbrock | Jan 29, 2014 | CakePHP Development, Unit Testing
If you want to write unit tests against a 1.3 CakePHP application (and you should want to write unit tests), using this TestCase class and Mockery will let you use forward-compatible PHPUnit-style assertions by temporarily translating them to SimpleTest assertions....