Phalcon 2.0.3 released

As part of our regular release schedule, we are happy to announce that Phalcon 2.0.3 has been released!

This version contains many bug fixes as well as new functionality that derived from community NFRs.

Changes

Implemented Namespace aliases in PHQL
Ability to define if a virtual foreign key must ignore null values or not
Added support for Behaviors in Phalcon\Mvc\Collection
Added SoftDelete and Timestampable behaviors to Collections
Fixed bug that added two ? in Mvc\Url::get when using query parameters 10421
String attributes in models can be marked to allow empty string values 440
Added an option to return the SQL to be generated from a Mvc\Model\Query instance 1908
Fix doesn’t correct column domain in Phalcon\Db\Dialect::select() 10439
Added support for DOUBLE type in MySQL
Phalcon\Tag\Select now handles array values as strings avoiding that zero will be handled as empty string 2921
PHQL now supports CASE/WHEN/ELSE expressions 651
Fixed bug that passes non-string values to Phalcon\Crypt::encrypt from Phalcon\Http\Cookies
Fixed bug that didn’t pass the schema name in the sequence name (PostgreSQL)
Attribute persistent is now removed from the DNS attributes in PDO connections to avoid errors in PostgreSQL 10484

Highlights

Support for CASE/WHEN/ELSE

Now CASE/WHEN/ELSE is available in PHQL expressions:

$robots = $this->modelsManager->executeQuery("
    SELECT
        CASE r.Type
            WHEN 'Mechanical' THEN 1
            WHEN 'Virtual' THEN 2
            ELSE 3
        END
    FROM Store\Robots
");

Namespace Aliases

If you are using namespaces to organize your models, you will often find yourself typing a long namespaced string to just reference one of your models. By using this feature, you can add aliases to existing namespaces, which will speed up development time:

// Before
$data = $this->modelsManager->executeQuery("
    SELECT r.*, rp.*
    FROM Store\Backend\Models\Robots AS r
    JOIN Store\Backend\Models\RobotsParts AS rp
");

Define aliases in the models manager:

use Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Manager as ModelsManager;

// ...

$di->set(
    'modelsManager',
    function () {
        $modelsManager = new ModelsManager();
        $modelsManager->registerNamespaceAlias(
            'bm',
             'Store\Backend\Models\Robots'
         );
        return $modelsManager;
    }
);

And in the queries:

// After
$data = $this->modelsManager->executeQuery("
    SELECT r.*, rp.*
    FROM bm:Robots AS r
    JOIN bm:RobotsParts AS rp
");

Custom Dialect Functions

This new functionality will help you to extend PHQL as you need using custom functions. In the following example we’re going to implement the MySQL’s extension MATCH/BINARY. First of all you have to instantiate the SQL dialect

use Phalcon\Db\Dialect\MySQL as SqlDialect;
use Phalcon\Db\Adapter\Pdo\MySQL as Connection;

$dialect = new SqlDialect();

// Register a new function called MATCH_AGAINST
$dialect->registerCustomFunction(
    'MATCH_AGAINST',
    function($dialect, $expression) {
        $arguments = $expression['arguments'];
        return sprintf(
            " MATCH (%s) AGAINST (%)",
            $dialect->getSqlExpression($arguments[0]),
            $dialect->getSqlExpression($arguments[1])
         );
    }
);

// The dialect must be passed in the connection constructor
$connection = new Connection(
    [
        "host"          => "localhost",
        "username"      => "root",
        "password"      => "",
        "dbname"        => "test",
        "dialectClass"  => $dialect
    ]
);

Now you can use this function in PHQL and it internally translates to the right SQL using the custom function:

$phql = "SELECT *
   FROM Posts
   WHERE MATCH_AGAINST(title, :pattern:)";
$posts = $modelsManager->executeQuery($phql, ['pattern' => $pattern]);

Improvements in Subqueries

In Phalcon 2.0.2 subqueries were introduced in PHQL. Support for this feature had been improved in 2.0.3 by introducing the EXISTS operator:

$phql = "SELECT c.*
  FROM Shop\Cars c
  WHERE EXISTS (
     SELECT id
     FROM Shop\Brands b
     WHERE b.id = c.brandId
  )";
$cars = $this->modelsManager->executeQuery($phql);

Update/Upgrade

This version can be installed from the master branch, if you don’t have Zephir installed follow these instructions:

    git clone https://github.com/phalcon/cphalcon
    git checkout master
    cd ext
    sudo ./install

The standard installation method also works:

git clone https://github.com/phalcon/cphalcon
cd cphalcon/build
sudo ./install

If you have Zephir installed:

git clone https://github.com/phalcon/cphalcon
cd cphalcon
zephir build

Note that running the installation script will replace any version of Phalcon installed before.

Windows DLLs are available in the download page.

See the upgrading guide for more information about upgrading to Phalcon 2.0.x from 1.3.x.

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Thanks to everyone involved in making this version: collaborators and as well to the community for their continuous input and feedback!

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