For original README content please check original repository: https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/tree/2.x

Unfortunately branch 2.x in original repository was taken down.

CakePHP 2 stopped getting updates in the end of 2019 (AFAIR). Unfortunately in my case it's too expensive to migrate to newer versions of CakePHP. I started migrating to Symfony framework, but I still use ORM from CakePHP (and actually I like it). So in order to keep up with the newest PHP versions I decided to create fork of the framework.

• Intention of this fork is to support PHP 8.*. Fork is not going to receive new features. Instead, fork is going to get minimal set of patches to comply with newer versions of PHP.
• If for example you're still on 5.6 or 7.0, you should not use this fork. Original cakephp/cakephp works perfectly fine on all PHP 7.* versions. You should migrate to newer versions of PHP and keep using original code. Once your application is battle tested on production I suggest migrating to PHP 8.

Only prerequisite is to have your application already on PHP 7.4. Upgrade project to PHP 8.0 and replace CakePHP with this fork.

Here are steps I took to migrate my project through all versions to PHP 8.1, maybe it can inspire you:

1. Decouple your tests from CakeTestCase and other utilities that are coupled to old PHPUnit version.
2. Once decoupled you can upgrade PHPUnit to the newest version accordingly to your PHP version.
3. Start upgrading gradually to newer versions of PHP. CakePHP 2 works perfectly fine on 7.0 - 7.4.
4. Once you're on 7.4 you can switch to 8 and this fork.

• Tests of CakePHP framework aren't refactored yet to support PHP 8. Main issue is old version of PHPUnit that is tightly coupled to framework's tests. Issue for fixing this situation is here: #7 Framework tests are migrated to PHPUnit 9.*. Github actions are running tests on PHP 8.0, 8.1.
• Due to lack of tests ☝️ - you also need to rely on tests in your application after integrating with this fork.
• If after integration you spot any issues related to framework please let me know by creating an issue or pull request with fix.

• In order to get rid of strftime() deprecation notices, it's required to switch to IntlDateFormatter class. This class is available in intl extension. Fork doesn't require it explicitly but to be able to use its functions Symfony ICU Polyfill is installed. To provide strftime behavior compatibility, PHP81_BC\strftime is used. PHP81_BC doesn't fully cover strftime, your code should work but there is a chance you'll get slightly different results. Discussed (here)[#64] and (here)[#65].

This repository is not available in packagist, therefore your project's composer.json must be changed to point to custom repository.

Example configuration:

{
	"require": {
		"cakephp/cakephp": "dev-master as 2.10.24",
	},
	"repositories": [
        {
            "type": "vcs",
            "url": "https://github.com/kamilwylegala/cakephp2-php8"
        }
    ]
}

It means that composer will look at master branch of repository configured under repositories to resolve update of cakephp/cakephp package.

• Fixes for PHP 8.4: session_set_save_handler accepts object, removed E_STRICT reference.
• Removed github action with php code sniffer. It's quite painful to work with. Need to migrate to something newer, that will affect code base as little as possible.

• Inflector fix: str_place with null.

• Added wrapper for PDOException to avoid creating dynamic property queryString.

• Csrf vulnerabity fix back ported from Cake PHP 3
• Explicit type hint definition of nullable parameters.

• Removed usage of strftime, replaced with Intl extension.

• Fix deprecation error in Model: Automatic conversion of false to array is deprecated

• Fix deprecation error in I18n: Automatic conversion of false to array is deprecated

• str_len deprecation warning fix in CakeResponse (passing null instead of string)

• strotime() and preg_split() in CakeResponse deprecation warning fixes (passing null)

• preg_replace deprecation warning fixes (passing null instead of string)

• preg_quote() passing null fix

• Muted dynamic property creation warnings in Controller.php
• Fix passing a null input to h function (PR #56)
• Fix Hash class callback callable pattern deprecated (PR #58)

• Silence dynamic property creation warning in Model.php

• Fixed: unitialized property in Debugger.php

• Fallback to empty string from env() in basics.php and request handler.

• Removed usage of deprecated redis->getKeys() in favor of redis->keys().
• Added docker-compose setup to run tests locally.

• Fix for ShellDispatcher where null was passed to strpos function.

• Fixed PHP8 deprecation notices. Related mostly to passing null as a $haystack value.

• Fixed PHP 8.2 deprecation notices in CakeEvent: Creation of dynamic property ... is deprecated.

• Fixed PHP 8.1 MySQL test suite.

• Fixed PostgreSQL test suite.

• PaginatorHelper fix.

• Fixed views cache when relative time is specified.

• Fixed test suite to run under PHPUnit 9.5 and PHP8. Big kudos to @tenkoma 👏

• MailTransport fix.

• Support for full_path when uploading a file, PHP 8.1 only.

• Fixed multiple CREATE UNIQUE INDEX statements from schema shell that did not work on PostgreSQL.

• Fixed passing params["pass"] argument to invokeArgs when resolving controller action - array_values used to avoid problems with named parameters.

• Removed String class.

• Fixed ConsoleErrorHandler::handleError to respect error suppression.

• Fixed Folder->read, array_values is used to remove keys to prevent usign named arguments in call_user_func_array

• Fix Shell ReflectionMethod::__construct default null argument in hasMethod

• Readme file update - more explicit content.

• Fixed more deprecation notices
  • strtoupper + converting false to array in Mysql.php
  • preg_match where $subject = null in CakeRoute.php
  • strtoupper in DboSource.php
  • Check history for details ☝️

• Fixed deprecation notices in PHP 8.1 for production code implementations:
  • ArrayAccess
  • Countable
  • IteratorAggregate
• PHP 8.0 requirement in composer.json
• Warning: Tests are not updated, Cake's tests rely on old version of PHPUnit so running them may show a lot of deprecations notices. Added issue to cover it: #7

• Fixed ErrorHandler accordingly to PHP8 migration guide. Otherwise, error handler is logging too much and doesn't respect configured error_reporting.