Migrate to CakePHP 5.0

[patrickakk]

A new version of the framework is released.

• Migrate to version 5.0 incl fixing deprecation warnings or refactoring
• Includes also migration to PHPUnit 10.x

[patrickakk]

Explanation:
This task contains fixing deprecations from PHP 8.2 and 8.3, the migration to a new major release of the framework (CakePHP 5.0) and migration to Phpunit 10.x

Al tough the amount of characters that are describing the task are small, this is an imported and complex task. Finishing it will be an important step forward in keeping up-to-date with current technology and also requires a bigger amount of time.

The new framework version contains a lot of breaking changes and as well in this migration is poor documented, which also makes it more complex.

[patrickakk]

Status update:
Migrated to CakePHP 4.5.7 and PHP 8.3

The application has been migrated to the latest version of the CakePHP 4.x branch, which is currently CakePHP 4.5.7

All deprecation warnings from both the Framework and PHP 8.2 and PHP 8.3 have been solved. As a part of this, the pagination in the login area was also restructured.

Migrating to the 5.x branch seems a complex task and might require a lot of time and unfortunaly the documentation is poor.

The changes are implemented in version 2024-10

[patrickakk]

@PixlTracer @IvdL22

The changes made (as described above) have impact at almost all the pages in the login area. Altough the code was updated, they should still work the same as before.

You can check everything out in the test instance if you want.

Do you want to review this or can we release it now?

In this case, no need to change the label to Done. Please remove the InReview label if you've replied here.

[PixlTracer]

Hi Patrick,
I checked in test instance, everything looks good to me. In my opinion, you can proceed.
Just to be sure: kindly asking @vronk to look into it and give feedback too, thanks!

[vronk]

This looks fine. please proceed.

[patrickakk]

Final note:
Migrated to CakePHP 4.5.7 and PHP 8.3

The changes are implemented in version 2024-10

As discussed in the meeting today, the upgrade to CakePHP 5.x will be postponed.