Phalcon PHP

Phalcon PHP is delivered as a C extension.

This is done for higher performance and lower resource consumption.

What is new in this release:

• Added support for Behaviors in Phalcon\Mvc\Collection
• Added SoftDelete and Timestampable behaviors to Collections
• Implemented Namespace aliases in PHQL
• Now you can define if a virtual foreign key must ignore null values or not
• Fixed bug that added two ? in Mvc\Url::get when using query parameters
• Now string attributes in models can be marked to allow empty string values
• Added an option to return the SQL to be generated from a Mvc\Model\Query instance
• Fix doesn't correct column domain in Phalcon\Db\Dialect::select()
• 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
• PHQL now supports CASE/WHEN/ELSE expressions
• 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)

What is new in version 2.0.7:

• Added support for Behaviors in Phalcon\Mvc\Collection
• Added SoftDelete and Timestampable behaviors to Collections
• Implemented Namespace aliases in PHQL
• Now you can define if a virtual foreign key must ignore null values or not
• Fixed bug that added two ? in Mvc\Url::get when using query parameters
• Now string attributes in models can be marked to allow empty string values
• Added an option to return the SQL to be generated from a Mvc\Model\Query instance
• Fix doesn't correct column domain in Phalcon\Db\Dialect::select()
• 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
• PHQL now supports CASE/WHEN/ELSE expressions
• 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)

What is new in version 2.0.5:

• Added support for Behaviors in Phalcon\Mvc\Collection
• Added SoftDelete and Timestampable behaviors to Collections
• Implemented Namespace aliases in PHQL
• Now you can define if a virtual foreign key must ignore null values or not
• Fixed bug that added two ? in Mvc\Url::get when using query parameters
• Now string attributes in models can be marked to allow empty string values
• Added an option to return the SQL to be generated from a Mvc\Model\Query instance
• Fix doesn't correct column domain in Phalcon\Db\Dialect::select()
• 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
• PHQL now supports CASE/WHEN/ELSE expressions
• 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)

What is new in version 2.0.2:

• Added `stats()` methods to Beanstalk
• Fixed segfault when a docblock does not have annotations #10301
• Fixed wrong number of parameters passed when triggering an event in Mvc\Collection
• Now Mvc\Model checks if an attribute has a default value associated in the database and ignores it from the insert/update generated SQL
• Readded Http\Request::hasPut() (#10283)
• Added method reduceSlashes() - Reduces multiple slashes in a string to single slashes
• Added method concat() - Concatenates strings using the separator only once without duplication in places concatenation
• Added conditional on Session adapter start() to check if the session has already been started
• Added status() function in Session adapter to return the status of the session (disabled/none/started)

What is new in version 2.0.1:

• Added missing Phalcon\Debug::listenLowSeverity
• Added new theme in Phalcon\Debug
• Allow to count and iterate Phalcon\Session\Bag as in 1.3.x
• Renamed getEventsManager to getInternalEventsManager in Phalcon\Di to avoid collision with existing services
• Added constants FILTER_* to Phalcon\Filter for filters names
• Fixed multibyte characters in cssmin/jsmin
• Added Phalcon\Security::destroyToken() to remove current token key and value from session
• Changed Phalcon\Security::isLegacyHash() to return TRUE if passwordHash is not a valid bcrypt hash (instead of false), removed first argument (password), since it's not used in the function
• Restored alternative hash algorithms in Phalcon\Security that were available in 1.3.x
• Fixed bug that makes instances returned in Model::findFirst to be not completely initialized
• Added support for general SELECT ALL/SELECT DISTINCT in PHQL
• Added support for "not in" test in Volt
• Renamed method var() to variable()
• Renamed method vars() to variables()
• Phalcon\Mvc\Model::findFirst() now allows hydration

What is new in version 1.3.4:

• Fixed improper access to \Phalcon\Debug::$_charset
• Fixed segfault in Phalcon\Mvc\Collection when an invalid parameter is passed as conditions
• Fixed segfault when MongoClient does not return a valid collection in Phalcon\Mvc\Collection
• Fixed possible memory corruption when phalcon_concat_self does not properly separate values

What is new in version 1.3.3:

• Fixed segmentation fault in zim_Phalcon_Http_Request_getBasicAuth
• Fixed memory corruption on unclean shutdown

What is new in version 1.3.2:

• Added method Phalcon\Assets\Collection::addFilter
• Added Phalcon\Session\Adapter\memcache and Phalcon\Session\Adapter\Libmemcached
• Added class Phalcon\Session\Adapter\Libemcached
• Added class Phalcon\Session\Adapter\Memcache
• Fixed bug about updated property for Phalcon\Session\*
• Fixed pagination nativeArray test-unit failed
• Added Phalcon\Translate\Adapter\Gettext
• Added Phalcon\Config\Adapter\Yaml

What is new in version 1.3.1:

• Moved global zvals to RINIT/RSHUTDOWN to improve stability on Windows TS builds
• Moved pre-allocated frames to RINIT/RSHUTDOWN to improve stability on Windows TS builds
• Fixed segfault when replacing Phalcon\Session adapter by PHP userland adapter
• Fixed zval invalid indirection in Phalcon\Security hash
• Fixed segfault when passing an invalid number of arguments to Phalcon\Annotations\Reader::parseDocBlock
• Private and Protected properties weren't unmangled in Phalcon\Annotations\Reader
• First character of controller name was removed when isExactHandler flag is on

What is new in version 1.3.0:

• Fixed various memory leaks
• Fixed memory access violations / segmentation faults / etc.
• Fixed PHP notices, warnings and other incompatibilities
• Fixed inheritance chain for Phalcon\Forms\Exception, Phalcon\Loader\Exception, Phalcon\Http\Request\Exception
• Major source code optimizations
• Control Phalcon behavior via INI settings

What is new in version 1.2.6:

• Phalcon\Security::checkHash() now correctly handles non-bcrypt hashes.

What is new in version 1.2.5:

• Http\Cookie::__toString() will not throw exceptions
• Phalcon\Http\Cookie::__toString() will return a string value
• Camelize does not ignore the last character of a string anymore
• APC tests do not run under CLI when apc.enable_cli is 0
• Phalcon\Debug::uri now supports both HTTP and HTTPS
• Fixed inconsistency in Tag::stylesheetLink/javascriptInclude w.r.t. local URLs
• Fixed bug in Phalcon\Queue\Beanstalk::read()
• Phalcon\Flash\Session::getMessages() incorrectly removed all messages
• Fixed bug in phalcon_fix_path()
• Added Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Row::toArray() method
• Added support for POINT type in MySQL
• Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Validator::getOption() returns NULL if the option does not exist
• Fixed parsing of annotations containing /
• Make sure that 'persistent' is resolved only when accessed for the first time
• Fixed Phalcon\Session\Bag::remove()

What is new in version 1.2.4:

• Fixed broken ACL inheritance
• Fixed crash while rendering element's label
• Fixed XSS vulnerabilities
• Added support for APCu 4.0.2+
• Fixed chaining of CSS/JS filters
• Fixed notices and warnings with complex PHQL queries
• Memory allocation optimizations
• Fixed regular expression in \Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Validator\Email
• Documentation bug fixes
• Phalcon\Mvc\Model::hasOne/hasMany/belongsTo/hasManyToMany/addBehavior() are now public methods
• Added support for MySQL DOUBLE type
• Added support for UTF-8 characters in jsmin
• Added support for UTF-8 to \Phalcon\Debug
• Fixed regression in \Phalcon\Http\Request::getRawBody()
• Implemented \Phalcon\Cache\Backend\Memory::queryKeys()

What is new in version 1.2.0:

• 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