Canonical Issues

Some problems that are observed by users are not bugs but expected behavior, or the consequence of incorrect config. This page lists a few issues the team use to find "the canonical issue" and optional notes to make dealing with repeat-issues easier/faster.

Database field quoting

Auto-quoting is off by default.

• Issue: https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/issues/4028
• Docs: http://book.cakephp.org/3.0/en/orm/database-basics.html#identifier-quoting

Translated strings and single-quotes

A single quote is the escape character.

• Issue: https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/issues/6145
• Docs : http://book.cakephp.org/3.0/en/core-libraries/internationalization-and-localization.html#using-variables-in-translation-messages

Limiting HasMany association in Contain

This can't be done with the QueryBuilder. https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/issues/8060 is the reference issue on this, and has good workarounds until a ORM native solution is created.

Examples of Great Issue Reports

• https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/issues/6733