Recently there has been a lot discussion about “services” and “business logic”, “DDD” and missing “DI” in the CakePHP framework. For an easy start just let me quote the first paragraph from this page, that pretty much hits the nail in my opinion: According to Eric Evans, Domain-driven design (DDD) is not a technology or […]
CakePHP PSR7 Middleware Authentication
Introduction and background Let’s start with some background story on this topic. One of the parts of the CakePHP framework I like the less is the authentication and authorization. There are a few reasons why. For example the authentication and authorization. Firstly both authentication and authorization have been married through the AuthComponent, secondly the component […]
Complex application rules in CakePHP3
I had a pretty interesting task recently. We have profiles that must implement certain constraints depending on what kind of profile / product the client purchased. So a profile can have a specific number of languages depending on the constraints. This means we need to validate the number of languages an user has picked by […]