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Upgrading to V5

So you have decided to upgrade to v5! Congratulations!!

Phalcon v5 contains a lot of changes in components and interfaces. Upgrading is going to be a time-consuming task, depending on how big and complex your application is. We hope that this document will make your upgrade journey smoother and also offer insight as to why certain changes were made and how it will help the framework in the future.

We will outline the areas that you need to pay attention to and make necessary changes so that your code can run as smoothly as it has been with v4. Although the changes are significant, it is more of a methodical task than a daunting one.

Requirements

PHP 7.4

Phalcon v5 supports only PHP 7.4 and above. PHP 7.4 active support expired roughly a month before the release of Phalcon 5, but support for Security patches etc. will continue until November 2022. After that time, we will drop support for PHP 7.4 also.

Since Phalcon 4, we have been following the PHP releases and adjusting Phalcon accordingly to work with those releases.

PSR

Phalcon requires the PSR extension. The extension can be installed with PECL:

pecl install psr

If you do not wish to install it with PECL, you can download and compile OSR from this GitHub repository. Installation instructions are available in the README of the repository. Once the extension has been compiled and is available in your system, you will need to load it to your php.ini. You will need to add this line:

extension=psr.so

before

extension=phalcon.so

Alternatively some distributions add a number prefix on ini files. If that is the case, choose a high number for Phalcon (e.g. 50-phalcon.ini).

Installation

Phalcon can be installed using PECL.

pecl install phalcon-5.0.0

It is important to check your php.ini file (both for your web server and CLI) and make sure that phalcon is loaded after psr. Your php.ini should look something like this:

extension=psr.so

extension=phalcon.so

Alternative installation

Download the latest zephir.phar from here. Add it to a folder that can be accessed by your system.

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/phalcon/cphalcon

Compile Phalcon

cd cphalcon/
git checkout tags/5.0.0 ./
zephir fullclean
zephir build

Check the module

php -m | grep phalcon

General Notes

One of the biggest changes with this release is that we no longer have top level classes. All top level classes have been moved into relevant namespaces (with the exception of Phalcon\Tag). For instance Phalcon\Loader has been moved to Phalcon\Autoload\Loader. This change was necessary for the future expansion of the project.

Summary

v4 v5
Phalcon\Cache Phalcon\Cache\Cache
Phalcon\Collection Phalcon\Support\Collection
Phalcon\Config Phalcon\Config\Config
Phalcon\Container Phalcon\Container\Container
Phalcon\Crypt Phalcon\Encryption\Crypt
Phalcon\Debug Phalcon\Support\Debug
Phalcon\Di Phalcon\Di\Di
Phalcon\Escaper Phalcon\Html\Escaper
Phalcon\Exception Removed
Phalcon\Filter Phalcon\Filter\Filter
Phalcon\Helper Removed in favor of Phalcon\Support\Helper
Phalcon\Loader Phalcon\Autoload\Loader
Phalcon\Logger Phalcon\Logger\Logger
Phalcon\Kernel Removed
Phalcon\Registry Phalcon\Support\Registry
Phalcon\Security Phalcon\Encryption\Security
Phalcon\Text Removed in favor of Phalcon\Support\Helper
Phalcon\Url Phalcon\Mvc\Url
Phalcon\Validation Phalcon\Filter\Validation
Phalcon\Version Phalcon\Support\Version

Changes

Acl

Status: changes required

Usage: ACL Documentation

The ACL component has had some methods and components renamed. The functionality remains the same as in previous versions.

  • Renamed Phalcon\Acl\ComponentAware to Phalcon\Acl\ComponentAwareInterface
  • Renamed Phalcon\Acl\RoleAware to Phalcon\Acl\RoleAwareInterface

Acl\Adapter\Memory - Acl\Adapter\AdapterInterface

  • Added getInheritedRoles() to return an array of the inherited roles in the adapter.

Annotations

Status: no changes

Usage: Annotations Documentation

Application

Status: no changes

Usage: Application Documentation

The getEventsManager() now returns a Phalcon\Events\ManagerInterface or null

Assets

Status: changes required

Usage: Assets Documentation

The Assets component has had changes to the interface as well as some methods were renamed. The functionality remains the same as in previous versions.

Phalcon\Assets\Asset

  • getAssetKey() now uses sha1 to compute the key
  • Renamed getLocal() to isLocal()
  • Renamed setLocal() to setIsLocal()

Phalcon\Assets\Collection

  • The class now uses ArrayIterator instead of `Iterator
  • Renamed getLocal() to isLocal()
  • Renamed setLocal() to setIsLocal()
  • Renamed getTargetLocal() to getTargetIsLocal()
  • Renamed setTargetLocal() to setTargetIsLocal()
  • Removed getPosition(), current(), key(), next(), rewind(), valid()

Phalcon\Assets\Inline

  • getAssetKey() now uses sha1 to compute the key

Phalcon\Assets\Manager

  • __construct() requires a Phalcon\Html\TagFactory as the first parameter
public function __construct(Phalcon\Html\TagFactory $tagFactory, array $options = [])
  • addCss() now requires $local to be bool and $attributes to be an array
public function addCss(
    string $path,
    bool $local = true,
    bool $filter = true,
    array $attributes = [],
    string $version = null,
    bool $autoVersion = false
): Manager
  • addInlineCss() now requires $filter to be bool and $attributes to be an array
public function addInlineCss(
    string $content,
    bool $filter = true,
    array $attributes = []
): Manager
  • addJs() now requires $local to be bool and $attributes to be an array
public function addJs(
    string $path,
    bool $local = true,
    bool $filter = true,
    array $attributes = [],
    string $version = null,
    bool $autoVersion = false
): Manager
  • addInlineJs() now requires $filter to be bool and $attributes to be an array
public function addInlineJs(
    string $content,
    bool $filter = true,
    array $attributes = []
): Manager
  • Added has() method to return if a collection exists

Cache

Status: changes required

Usage: Cache Documentation

The Cache component has been moved to the Cache namespace.

Phalcon\Cache\AdapterFactory

  • The constructor now requires a Phalcon\Storage\SerializerFactory to be passed as the first parameter
  • The getAdapters() protected method has been renamed to getServices()
  • A new protected method getExceptionClass() was introduced to return the exception class to throw from this factory when necessary

Phalcon\Cache\CacheFactory

  • A new protected method getExceptionClass() was introduced to return the exception class to throw from this factory when necessary

Phalcon\Cache\Cache

  • Moved Phalcon\Cache to Phalcon\Cache\Cache

Cli

Status: no changes

Usage: Cli Documentation

Collection

Status: changes required

Usage: Collection Documentation

The Collection component has been moved to the Support namespace.

Phalcon\Support\Collection

  • Moved Phalcon\Collection to Phalcon\Support\Collection
  • get() will return the defaultValue if the key is not set. It will also return the defaultValue if the key is set and the value is null. This aligns with the 3.x behavior.

Phalcon\Support\Collection\CollectionInterface

  • A new interface has been introduced (Phalcon\Support\Collection\CollectionInterface) to offer more flexibility when extending the collection object.

Phalcon\Support\Collection\ReadOnlyCollection

  • This class has been renamed from ReadOnly in order to avoid collisions with PHP 8.x reserved words.

Config

Status: changes required

Usage: Config Documentation

The Config component has been moved to the Config namespace.

Phalcon\Config\Config

  • Moved Phalcon\Config to Phalcon\Config\Config

Phalcon\Config\ConfigInterface

  • A new interface has been introduced (Phalcon\Config\ConfigInterface) to offer more flexibility when extending the config object.

Container

Status: changes required

Usage: Container Documentation

The Container component has been moved to the Container namespace.

Phalcon\Container\Container

  • Moved Phalcon\Container to Phalcon\Container\Container

Crypt

Status: changes required

Usage: Crypt Documentation

The Crypt component has been moved to the Encryption namespace. more

DataMapper

Status: no changes

Usage: DataMapper Documentation

Db

Status: changes required

Usage: Assets Documentation

Di

Status: changes required

Usage: Di Documentation

The Di component has been moved to the Di namespace.

Phalcon\Di\Di

  • Moved Phalcon\Di to Phalcon\Di\Di
  • The tag service now returns an instance of Phalcon\Html\TagFactory
  • The (new) helper service returns an instance of Phalcon\Support\HelperFactory

Dispatcher

Status: no changes

Usage: Dispatcher Documentation

Domain

Status: no changes

Usage: Domain Documentation

The Di component has been moved to the Di namespace.

Encryption

Status: changes required

Usage: Crypt Documentation, Security Documentation. JWT Documentation

Phalcon\Encryption\Crypt

  • Moved Phalcon\Crypt to Phalcon\Encryption\Crypt
  • Two new constants introduced DEFAULT_ALGORITHM = "sha256" and DEFAULT_CIPHER = "aes-256-cfb"
  • The __construct now sets useSigning as true (previously false)
  • The __construct accepts a third parameter (null by default), which is a Phalcon\Encryption\Crypt\PadFactory
use Phalcon\Encryption\Crypt;
use Phalcon\Encryption\Crypt\PadFactory;

$padFactory = new PadFactory();
$crypt      = new Crypt("aes-256-cfb", true, $padFactory);

If no padFactory is passed, a new one will be created in the component.

  • Phalcon\Encryption\Crypt::getAvailableHashAlgos() was renamed to Phalcon\Encryption\Crypt::getAvailableHashAlgorithms()
  • Phalcon\Encryption\Crypt::getHashAlgo() was renamed to Phalcon\Encryption\Crypt::getHashAlgorithm()
  • Phalcon\Encryption\Crypt::setHashAlgo() was renamed to Phalcon\Encryption\Crypt::setHashAlgorithm()

Phalcon\Encryption\Crypt\CryptInterface

  • Moved Phalcon\Crypt\CryptInterface to Phalcon\Encryption\Crypt\CryptInterface
  • Changed Phalcon\Encryption\Crypt\CryptInterface::decryptBase64() to accept a string variable as the key
  • Changed Phalcon\Encryption\Crypt\CryptInterface::encryptBase64() to accept a string variable as the key
  • Added Phalcon\Encryption\Crypt\CryptInterface::useSigning(bool useSigning)

Phalcon\Encryption\Crypt\Exception\Exception

  • Moved Phalcon\Crypt\Exception to Phalcon\Encryption\Crypt\Exception\Exception

Phalcon\Encryption\Crypt\Exception\Mismatch

  • Moved Phalcon\Crypt\Mismatch to Phalcon\Encryption\Crypt\Exception\Mismatch

Phalcon\Encryption\Crypt

  • Moved from Phalcon\Crypt

Phalcon\Encryption\PadFactory

  • Added Phalcon\Encryption\PadFactory to allow for different padding schemes during encryption and decryption of data

Phalcon\Encryption\Padding\*

  • Added Phalcon\Encryption\Padding\PadInterface to allow for custom padding classes
  • Added Phalcon\Encryption\Padding\Ansi
  • Added Phalcon\Encryption\Padding\Iso10126
  • Added Phalcon\Encryption\Padding\IsoIek
  • Added Phalcon\Encryption\Padding\Noop
  • Added Phalcon\Encryption\Padding\Pkcs7
  • Added Phalcon\Encryption\Padding\Space
  • Added Phalcon\Encryption\Padding\Zero

Escaper

Status: changes required

Usage: Escaper Documentation

The Escaper component has been moved to the Html namespace. more

Escaper Events Factory Filter Flash Forms Helper Html Http Image Loader Logger Messages Mvc Paginator Security Session Storage Tag Translate Url Validation Cache.zep Collection.zep Config.zep Container.zep Crypt.zep Debug.zep Di.zep Escaper.zep Exception.zep Filter.zep Kernel.zep Loader.zep Logger.zep Registry.zep Security.zep Tag.zep Text.zep Url.zep Validation.zep Version.zep

Events

Status: changes required

Usage: Assets Documentation

Factory

Status: changes required

Usage: Assets Documentation

Filter

Status: changes required

Usage: Assets Documentation

Flash

Status: changes required

Usage: Assets Documentation

Forms

Status: changes required

Usage: Assets Documentation

Html

Status: changes required

Usage: Assets Documentation

Http

Status: changes required

Usage: Assets Documentation

Image

Status: changes required

Usage: Assets Documentation

Loader

Status: changes required

Usage: Loader Documentation

The Loader component has been moved to the Autoload namespace. Some method names have been changed and new functionality introduced.

Phalcon\Autoload\Loader

  • __construct(bool $isDebug = false) The constructor now accepts a boolean, which allows the loader to collect and store debug information during the discovery and loading process of files, classes etc. If the variable is set to true, getDebug() will return an array with all the debugging information during the autoload operation. This mode is only for debugging purposes and must not be used in production environments.

use Phalcon\Autoload\Loader;
use Adapter\Another;

$loader = new Loader(true);

$loader
    ->addNamespace('Base', './Namespaces/Base/')
    ->addNamespace('Adapter', './Namespaces/Adapter/')
    ->addNamespace('Namespaces', './Namespaces/')
;

$loader->autoload(Another::class);

var_dump($loader->getDebug());

// [
//     'Loading: Adapter\Another',
//     'Class: 404: Adapter\Another',
//     'Require: 404: ./Namespaces/Adapter/Another.php',
//     'Require: ./Namespaces/Another.php',
//     'Namespace: Namespaces\Adapter - ./Namespaces/Another.php',
// ];
  • add* methods have been introduced to help with the setup of the autoloader
    • addClass(string $name, string $file): Loader
    • addDirectory(string $directory): Loader
    • addExtension(string $extension): Loader
    • addFile(string $file): Loader
    • addNamespace(string $name, string|array $directories, bool $prepend = false): Loader
  • getCheckedPath() now returns either a string or a null (if not populated yet)
  • getDebug() returns an array of debug information, if the Loader has been instantiated with $isDebug = true
  • getDirs() has been renamed to getDirectories()
  • getFoundPath() now returns either a string or a null (if not populated yet)
  • registerClasses() has been renamed to setClasses()
  • registerDirs() has been renamed to setDirectories()
  • registerExtensions() has been renamed to setExtensions()
  • setExtensions() now accepts a second parameter (bool $merge) which allows you to merge the data set with what is already set in the Loader
  • registerFiles() has been renamed to setFiles()
  • registerNamespaces() has been renamed to setNamespaces()

Logger

Status: changes required

Usage: Assets Documentation

Messages

Status: changes required

Usage: Assets Documentation

Mvc

Status: changes required

Usage: Assets Documentation

Paginator

Status: changes required

Usage: Assets Documentation

Session

Status: changes required

Usage: Assets Documentation

Storage

Status: changes required

Usage: Assets Documentation

Support

Status: changes required

Usage: Assets Documentation

Tag

Status: changes required

Usage: Assets Documentation

Translate

Status: changes required

Usage: Assets Documentation

Tag.zep

Status: changes required

Usage: Assets Documentation

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