TIPS, INSIGHTS AND THE LATEST FROM THE EXPERTS BEHIND CAKEPHP
What bin/cake plugin list Actually Tells You. During a CakePHP 4 to 5 upgrade on a long-running application, I needed to review which of our thirty-something plugins were actually loaded, which were CLI-only, and which were meant to be…
How to Build Reusable Components in CakePHP 5.4 Long-lived CakePHP applications accumulate logic in four places: templates, Tables, controllers, commands. Each…
Ubi ignis, ibi crustum; ubi non ignis, ibi opus tardum. AI coding assistants are impressive. They write controllers, invent migrations, and generate tests with…
Every application I've worked on needs secrets to run: database passwords, API keys, encryption keys, OAuth signing material. So the question was never whether we…
One of the most common questions we hear from teams maintaining older CakePHP applications is: Should we upgrade this application, or should we rewrite it? It is an…
Before talking about middleware, it is important to clarify what we mean by rate limiting. Rate limiting controls how many requests a user, IP address, or client…
Preparing Enterprise Applications for AI: Why Adding a Chatbot Is No Longer Enough A year ago, almost every conversation about Artificial Intelligence started with…
Who changed that booking? A drop-in audit log for CakePHP with TimescaleDB Somebody cancels a reservation, a refund goes out, and three days later a client asks:…
Well bakers… another advent calendar is coming to an end. I hope you enjoyed all of the topics covered each day. We are also closing the year with so much…
Pagination of multiple queries in CakePHP A less typical use case for pagination in an appication is the need to paginate multiples queries. In CakePHP you can…
This article is part of the CakeDC Advent Calendar 2025 (December 23rd, 2025) Introduction: The Death of the "Hidden" Dependency For years, accessing data in…
This article is part of the CakeDC Advent Calendar 2025 (December 21st 2025) Rate limiting a specific endpoint of your application can be a life saver. Sometimes…
This article is part of the CakeDC Advent Calendar 2025 (December 20th 2025) As PHP developers, when we hear "real-time," our minds immediately jump to WebSockets.…
QA testing requires knowledge in computer science but still many devs think of us like BUT... It is not like we want to detroy what you have created but... …
This article is part of the CakeDC Advent Calendar 2025 (December 18th 2025) I have been working with CakePHP for more than 15 years now. I love the conventions. I…
Uploading Files with CakePHP and Uppy: Direct to S3 Modern web applications increasingly require fast, resilient, and user‑friendly file uploads. Whether it’s…
This article is part of the CakeDC Advent Calendar 2025 (December 15th 2025) Did you ever wanted to provide a partial result as part of an existing report? Window…
This article is part of the CakeDC Advent Calendar 2025 (December 2th 2025) CounterCacheBehavior in CakePHP: what it is, when to use it, and what’s new in CakePHP…
The Generational Perception of Work and Productivity in the Remote-Work Era In the year 2020, everything changed when the world stopped completely during COVID-19.…
End-to-End Testing CakePHP Applications with Cypress End-to-end (E2E) testing has increasingly become a critical part of modern web development workflows. Unit and…
