TIPS, INSIGHTS AND THE LATEST FROM THE EXPERTS BEHIND CAKEPHP
A year ago, my colleague Jorge wrote about building an MCP server in CakePHP and connecting Claude Desktop to it. It was a local setup on purpose: stdio, your own machine, no login. He even listed what was missing for production…
CakePHP AI is an ecosystem for building AI features in CakePHP applications. The center of the ecosystem is the crustum/cakephp-ai package, which provides agents,…
On October 21, 2026, the PHP ecosystem was confronted with PHP2Shell, two critical vulnerabilities that allowed unauthenticated remote code execution on…
A lot is changing in the world of technology. Did you ever imagine that in your lifetime something like AI would come around and be involved in everything tech…
When preparing an application for a CakePHP 5 upgrade, one useful step is to increase the PHPStan level before starting the full migration. The goal is not only to…
CakePHP 4 Has Reached End of Security Support: What Should You Do Now? On September 10, 2026, CakePHP 4 reached the end of its security support period. From now on,…
Cover photo: "tangle" by jenny downing, licensed under CC BY 2.0. Github example repo: "cakephp-pgvector-example". Today we're going to integrate CakePHP and…
Most CakePHP applications I've worked on have a decent PHPUnit suite, and almost no end-to-end tests. Not because nobody wants them, but because writing them is…
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…
How to Build Reusable Components in CakePHP 5.4 Long-lived CakePHP applications accumulate logic in four places: templates, Tables, controllers, commands. Each…
Sooner or later a CakePHP application has to talk to somebody else's SFTP server: a bank that drops a settlement file every night, a logistics partner that expects…
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…
