2.8 Migration Guide

CakePHP 2.8 is a fully API compatible upgrade from 2.7. This page outlines the changes and improvements made in 2.8.

PHP7 Compatibility

CakePHP 2.8 is compatible with, and tested against PHP7.

Deprecations

• The action option in FormHelper::create() has been deprecated. This is a backport from 3.x. Note that this now makes the action key of an array URL consistently respected for the generation of the DOM ID. If you used the deprecated key you want to compare the generated ID for the form before and after.

Error Handling

• When handling fatal errors, CakePHP will now adjust the memory limit by 4MB to ensure that the error can be logged correctly. You can disable this behavior by setting Error.extraFatalErrorMemory to 0 in your Config/core.php.

Cache

• Cache::add() has been added. This method lets you add data to a cache if the key did not already exist. This method will work atomically in Memcached, Memcache, APC and Redis. Other cache backends will do non-atomic operations.

CakeTime

• CakeTime::listTimezones() has been changed to accept array in the last argument. Valid values for the $options argument are: group, abbr, before, and after.

Shell Helpers Added

Console applications can now create helper classes that encapsulate re-usable blocks of output logic. See the Shell Helpers section for more information.

I18nShell

• A new option no-locations has been added. When enabled, this option will disable the generation of location references in your POT files.

Hash

• Hash::sort() now supports case-insensitive sorting via the ignoreCase option.

Model

• Magic finders now support custom finder types. For example if your model implements a find('published') finder, you can now use findPublishedBy and findPublishedByAuthorId functions through the magic method interface.
• Find conditions can now use IN and NOT IN operator in conditions. This allows find expressions to be more forwards compatible with 3.x.

Validation

• Validation::uploadedFile() was backported from 3.x.

CakeSession

• The Session.cacheLimiter configuration option was added. This option lets you define the cache control headers used for the session cookie. The default is must-revalidate.

View

FormHelper

'url' => false is now supported for FormHelper::create() to allow form tags to be created without HTML action attribute. This is a backport from 3.x.