What's new in CakePHP 1.2?

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An often heard question is “What are the differences between CakePHP 1.1 and CakePHP 1.2?”. So with this post I try to give you a short overview of the differences between those two versions (if you miss an important change in the list below, please let me know and I will append it). As CakePHP 1.2 is still under development, not all topics listed below are fully implemented yet. And for many topics there is no documentation available yet.

• New file extension for view files (.ctp instead of .thtml)
• Definition of routes in app/config/routes.php changed a bit (Router::connect instead of $Route->connect)
• Integrated test suite
• A growing number of core classes are tested (cake/tests/cases)
• Three new core components: Auth, Cookie, and Email
• Support for DB2, Oracle and Sybase
• Support for global Javascript and CSS files (vendors/js resp. vendors/css)
• Model behaviors
• Three core behaviors: Acl, Translate, Tree
• Form related functions have been moved from the HTMLHelper to the FormHelper
• Four new core helpers: Js, Paginator, Rss, and Xml
• Support for themes
• i18n and l10n support
• Command line console (bake2 will probably get integrated into this new console infrastructure)
• More advanced validation
• Dot notation for HtmlHelper and FormHelper (Model.field instead of Model/field), thanks to Dieter@be for the hint
• Named arguments (thanks to poLK)
• New core classes: Set (thanks to poLK), Debugger, HttpSocket, Socket
• More advanced caching facilities. Support for APC, memcache, xcache, file-based and database-based caching

And of course CakePHP 1.2 contains a lot of bug fixes and small enhancements.