Roadmap v5.0

[WyriHaximus]

Todo:

• Twig 3.0
• Bump minimum PHP version to 7.1
• Merge in all changes from the 4.x branch
• Clean up and reorganize filters and functions

Research:

• Disable autoescaping for functions and filters so |raw everywhere isn't required (via @markstory)

[inoas]

Targeting CakePHP 4.0 (or 3.7) only?

[WyriHaximus]

Probably CakePHP 4.0, but if 3.7 isn't to much of an hassle that would be awesome. The thing is I would prefer to support the same minimum PHP version as CakePHP 4.0 with this 5.0 release.

[WyriHaximus]

@ADmad && @markstory Any things on cake's wishlist for 5.0 (targeting cakephp 4.0)?

[markstory]

I would love to help find a way to not need |raw all over the place. I find it noisy and trains people to use |raw which can be dangerous.

[WyriHaximus]

@markstory looking into how to sanely do that 👍

[ADmad]

Just skimming through twig docs I couldn't find a way to tell twig to disable escape for specific vars used in {{ }}.

So avoiding the need for using |raw would probably require registering new tag for helpers as it's done for cells and element. Usage would be like {% helper 'Foo.method' %}. This would make the usage a bit more verbose but on the flip side it would provide the benefit of being able to use helper auto loading like we have for .ctp files. Currently you need to explicitly load the helpers you want to use in twig template.

[WyriHaximus]

There might be something deeper in the API to do this, not entirely sure.

Like the idea, not 100% sold on the syntax but I'll get an experiment on this weekend to implement it and see where we can take it from there 👍 .

[markstory]

@ADmad TwigView could use reflection to generate twig functions for all defined helper methods. Twig functions can indicate that they are escapers. This would add a bit of overhead but could be something that is 'compiled' or cached.

[ADmad]

@markstory Yeah using reflection in TwigView is an option but I would prefer if the additional work could be done through Twig itself (with some additional code) instead of adding reflection in our view class.

On a related note could be shorten the tag for element to elem? :)

[ADmad]

Having helpers as regular variables also has the drawback that if someone doesn't follow conventions and for e.g. sets a view var named Html, the variable will be overwritten by helper instance.

[WyriHaximus]

On a related note could be shorten the tag for element to elem? :)

Sure, could probably do both 😜

[WyriHaximus]

@ADmad just been digging around and found this: https://twig.symfony.com/doc/2.x/advanced.html#automatic-escaping
We could/should select specific functions and filters that will be safe to be output rawly into the resulting template

[markstory]

@WyriHaximus Yes, that would be really useful on Helper proxy functions.

[WyriHaximus]

Merging 4.x in master now:

Will keep you updated, and tag you in relevant PR's for the extra tags and escaping

[ADmad]

I was looking into updating master to run with CakePHP 4 and got stuck. There's a bit of chicken and egg problem as Bake requires TwigView and TwigView itself has Bake as dev dependency 🙂

I tried to work on TwigView first ignoring the Bake dependency but the 1st blocker is the api-clients/test-utilities. Cake 4 requires PHP 7.1+ and phpunit 7.0+ but there's no version of test-utilities which satisfies these dependencies.

[WyriHaximus]

@ADmad lets fix that! If api-clients/test-utilities blocks something we can drop it and required-dev dependencies directly. Mainly use it as convenience to include test utilities but it isn't blocking anything. Is the PHP 7.1 for CakePHP 4 final? Or might it go to 7.2 before 4.0.0 is released?

Also we could make bake an optional dev dependency that we load on the CI when running tests but isn't a dev requirement if that untangles things.

[ADmad]

Is the PHP 7.1 for CakePHP 4 final?

It's final.

[WyriHaximus]

Is the PHP 7.1 for CakePHP 4 final?

It's final.

Ok cool! How far from releasing are you?

[ADmad]

As always "When it's ready" :)

[WyriHaximus]

As always "When it's ready" :)

Cool, the underlying question was: How fast does this needs to be done. But I'll get onto some stuff after my Honeymoon and dedicate some days to straightening things out and get them CakePHP 4 ready 👍 .

[ADmad]

No worries. Congrats on your wedding and enjoy your honeymoon 🙂

[WyriHaximus]

Thank you, enjoying it a lot 😎 !

[FinlayDaG33k]

I've been taking a look at this repo lately because we are considering to implement this in our project, however, I feel like it's "odd" to have to rename all the .ctp files to .twig files to use TwigView.
I wonder if it would be possible to use the regular .ctp files instead?

[ADmad]

@FinlayDaG33k "regular" .ctp files contain PHP code :). Why would you unnecessarily confuse any new dev joining your project by using .ctp extension instead of the default .twig for Twig files?

[WyriHaximus]

It's not only that, TwigView will fallback to .ctp files if it can't find the matching .twig file. So both formats are supported and you can iterate your way into support it file by file. There are also some IDE benefits such as PHPStorm picking up it's a twig file without having to configure that.

[FinlayDaG33k]

Why would you unnecessarily confuse any new dev joining your project by using .ctp extension instead of the default .twig for Twig files?

Well, to me, it feels more confusing that everything is .ctp and then suddenly there are some .twig files hanging around.

It's not only that, TwigView will fallback to .ctp files if it can't find the matching .twig file.
Ah I see.

This wasn't in the documentation, I'll add that in a bit :)

[WyriHaximus]

It's not only that, TwigView will fallback to .ctp files if it can't find the matching .twig file.
Ah I see.

This wasn't in the documentation, I'll add that in a bit :)

Cool 👍 !

[dereuromark]

the files should be whatever they are. so if those are twig templates, then the file extension should be .twig.
this also makes it able to leverage IDEs here to introspect them more easily.

As for the new Cake4 release, any plans on releasing a beta already or sth?
https://github.com/cakephp/bake/blob/master/composer.json#L24

"wyrihaximus/twig-view": "dev-master"

this is blocking other plugins to become stable.

cakephp/bake 2.0.1 requires wyrihaximus/twig-view dev-master -> satisfiable by wyrihaximus/twig-view[dev-master] but these conflict with your requirements or minimum-stability.

[dereuromark]

PS: Once you got a beta tag out, like the other plugins now, you can add the strawberry: FriendsOfCake/awesome-cakephp#334 :)

[WyriHaximus]

@dereuromark Hopefully this weekend. Will let you know once the tag is out

[WyriHaximus]

5.0 is out 🎉