CakePHP Upgrade from 1.1 to 1.2
By: SethCardoza - Published: 2009-01-10 23:32:18 in Category: CakePHP
CakePHP 1.2 has finally released, but how do you upgrade site your site running CakePHP 1.1? It is a fairly simple process with brief formal instructions on cakephp.org. Most will only have to make a few changes as CakePHP 1.2 is not backwards compatible. All of the html helper form element methods have been moved to a form helper. This means that this:
<?php echo $html->input('username'); ?>
becomes this:
<?php echo $form->input('username'); ?>
One other big change was the removal of the generateList() method used to create an array for later use in select elements. The change in code is as follows:
<?php $this->ModelName->generateList($conditions, $order, $limit, $keyPath, $valuePath); ?>
becomes this:
<?php $this->ModelName->find('list', $params); ?>
The upgrade instructions provide a possible migration approach suggested in the documentation. It was a relatively simple process, only taking a few hours, including a good deal of testing.
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