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Phalcon v1.2.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2013-07-10 // almost 11 years ago
    • Now 'compiledPath' option accept a closure to dynamically create the compilation path in Volt
    • Volt now supports user extensions, these can be used to extend better Volt
    • Now Phalcon\Mvc\Url provides an internal separation for uris for static resources and uris to rewrite resources
    • Added Mvc\Model\Criteria::inWhere to append an IN expression to the criteria
    • Added Mvc\Model\Criteria::notInWhere to append a NOT IN expression to the criteria
    • Added Mvc\Model\Criteria::notBetweenWhere to append a NOT BETWEEN expression to the criteria
    • Added Mvc\Model\Criteria::betweenWhere to append a BETWEEN expression to the criteria
    • Phalcon\Tag::image accepts a second parameter to allow external URLs
    • Added Phalcon\Mvc\View\Simple as an alternative view component, this only have a single level of rendering and works better with Volt's inheritance
    • Better escaping of reserved words in internal PHQL generation
    • Added Phalcon\Http\Request::getJsonRawBody() to return the request body as a decoded JSON
    • Added Phalcon\Http\Request::getHeaders()
    • Support for many to many relations in the ORM
    • Added Phalcon\Assets\Filters\Jsmin to provide on-the-fly javascript minification
    • Added Phalcon\Assets\Filters\Cssmin to provide on-the-fly CSS minification
    • Support for real nested transactions in Phalcon\Db using database savepoints
    • Support for create/list/drop views in Phalcon\Db
    • Added event application:viewRender to Phalcon\Mvc\Application allowing the developer to call the $view->render method as he/she needs
    • Added option to disable literals in PHQL statements, this highly reduces the possibility to be attacked using SQL injections
    • Now you can pass an array of variables with virtual local scope in Phalcon\Mvc\View::partial()
    • Syntax CAST(expr AS datatype) is now supported by PHQL
    • Support for CONVERT(expr USING charset) in PHQL
    • Support for {% include "hello" with [var1, var2] %}
    • Phalcon\Mvc\Collection::find receives a parameter 'fields' to specify a list of fields
    • Added Phalcon\Forms\Element\Email and Phalcon\Tag::emailField
    • Support to define arrays using curly braces in Volt {'a': 'b', 'c': 'd'} in Volt
    • Support to make multiple assigments in a single set in Volt {% set a = b, c = d %} in Volt
    • Volt now support 'if'/'else' blocks with empty bodies
    • Support for 'cascade' action in addition to 'restrict' in Virtual Foreign Keys (ORM)
    • Added missing Phalcon\Http\Request\File::getType()
    • Phalcon\Tag is not abstract anymore allowing to create instances of it
    • Phalcon\Tag is now registered as 'tag' in Phalcon\DI\FactoryDefault
    • In a handler in Phalcon\Mvc\Micro returns an object that implements Phalcon\Http\ResponseInterface the response is automatically send()
    • Phalcon\Mvc\View now have a chaineable API
    • Phalcon\Mvc\Micro now can optionally receive the DI in its constructor
    • Now if a method receives an incorrect number of parameters an exception BadMethodCallException is thrown instead of a warning
    • Phalcon\Mvc\Model/Phalcon\Mvc\Collection now checks for a method 'onConstruct' allowing the developer to execute initialization stuff every time a model/collection instance is created
    • Phalcon\Mvc\Model/Phalcon\Mvc\Collection now checks for a method 'afterFetch' allowing the developer to execute initialization stuff every time a model/collection instance is created in a findFirst/find operation is created
    • Added Phalcon\Mvc\Collection::summatory easing the generation of this type of aggregation
    • Support for boolean literals in PHQL
    • Support for complex expressions in GROUP BY clauses in PHQL
    • Now PHQL exceptions include the PHQL statement itself
    • Aliases for namespaces are now supported in PHQL
    • Acl\Memory was rewritten to make it simpler and faster, you may regenerate your serialized ACLs
    • Support for assigment operators +=, -=, *=, /= in Volt
    • Support for Profile-Guided optimization installation scripts (See blog)
    • Added Phalcon\Annotations\Adapter\Xcache to store annotations in Xcache
    • Added Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Metadata\Xcache to store models meta-data in Xcache
    • Added
    • Now if a controller implements 'initialize' it only is called if 'beforeExecuteRoute' is not stopped
    • Listeners implementing 'beforeExecuteRoute'/'afterExecuteRoute' are executed first than the ones implemented as methods in the controller/task