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Upgrading from 4.2.12 to 4.3.0

Please refer to the upgrade instructions corresponding to your installation method.

Composer Version

Important

If you use Composer, CodeIgniter v4.3.0 requires Composer 2.0.14 or later.

If you are using an older version of Composer, upgrade your composer tool, and delete the vendor/ directory, and run composer update again.

The procedure, for example, is as follows:

composer self-update
rm -rf vendor/
composer update

Mandatory File Changes

spark

The following files received significant changes and you must merge the updated versions with your application:

  • spark

Important

If you do not update this file, Spark commands will not work at all after running composer update.

The upgrade procedure, for example, is as follows:

composer update
cp vendor/codeigniter4/framework/spark .

Config Files

app/Config/Kint.php

  • app/Config/Kint.php has been updated for Kint 5.0.
  • You need to replace:
    • Kint\Renderer\Renderer with Kint\Renderer\AbstractRenderer
    • Renderer::SORT_FULL with AbstractRenderer::SORT_FULL

app/Config/Exceptions.php

  • If you are using PHP 8.2, you need to add new properties $logDeprecations and $deprecationLogLevel.

Mock Config Classes

  • If you are using the following Mock Config classes in testing, you need to update the corresponding Config files in app/Config:
    • MockAppConfig (Config\App)
    • MockCLIConfig (Config\App)
    • MockSecurityConfig (Config\Security)
  • Add types to the properties in these Config classes. You may need to fix the property values to match the property types.

composer.json

If you installed CodeIgniter manually, and are using Composer, you need to remove the following lines, and run composer update.

{
    ...
    "require": {
        ...
        "kint-php/kint": "^4.2",  <-- Remove this line
        ...
    },
    ...
    "scripts": {
        "post-update-cmd": [
            "CodeIgniter\\ComposerScripts::postUpdate"  <-- Remove this line
        ],
        "test": "phpunit"
    },
    ...
}

Breaking Changes

Database Exception Changes

  • The exception classes may be changed when database errors occur. If you catch the exceptions, you must confirm that your code can catch the exceptions.
  • Now a few exceptions will be thrown even if CI_DEBUG is false.
  • During transactions, exceptions are not thrown by default even if DBDebug is true. If you want exceptions to be thrown, you need to call transException(true). See Throwing Exceptions.
  • See Exceptions when Database Errors Occur for details.

HTTP Status Code and Exit Code of Uncaught Exceptions

  • If you expect Exception code as HTTP status code, the HTTP status code will be changed. In that case, you need to implement HTTPExceptionInterface in the Exception. See Specify HTTP Status Code in Your Exception.
  • If you expect Exit code based on Exception code, the Exit code will be changed. In that case, you need to implement HasExitCodeInterface in the Exception. See Specify Exit Code in Your Exception.

redirect()->withInput() and Validation Errors

redirect()->withInput() and Validation errors had an undocumented behavior. If you redirect with withInput(), CodeIgniter stores the validation errors in the session, and you can get the errors in the redirected page from a validation object before a new validation is run:

// In the controller
if (! $this->validate($rules)) {
    return redirect()->back()->withInput();
}

// In the view of the redirected page
<?= service('Validation')->listErrors() ?>

This behavior was a bug and was fixed in v4.3.0.

If you have code that depends on the bug, you need to change the code. Use the new Form helpers, validation_errors(), validation_list_errors() and validation_show_error() to display Validation Errors, instead of the Validation object.

Validation Changes

  • ValidationInterface has been changed. Implementing classes should likewise add the methods and the parameters so as not to break LSP. See Validation Changes for details.
  • The return value of Validation::loadRuleGroup() has been changed from null to [] when the $group is empty. Update the code if you depend on the behavior.

Time Fixes

  • Due to bug fixes, some methods in Time have changed from mutable behavior to immutable; Time now extends DateTimeImmutable. See ChangeLog for details.
  • If you need the behavior of Time before the modification, a compatible TimeLegacy class has been added. Please replace all Time with TimeLegacy in your application code.
  • But TimeLegacy is deprecated. So we recommend you update your code.

E.g.:

// Before
$time = Time::now();
// ...
if ($time instanceof DateTime) {
    // ...
}

// After
$time = Time::now();
// ...
if ($time instanceof DateTimeInterface) {
    // ...
}

// Before
$time1 = new Time('2022-10-31 12:00');
$time2 = $time1->modify('+1 day');
echo $time1; // 2022-11-01 12:00:00
echo $time2; // 2022-11-01 12:00:00

// After
$time1 = new Time('2022-10-31 12:00');
$time2 = $time1->modify('+1 day');
echo $time1; // 2022-10-31 12:00:00
echo $time2; // 2022-11-01 12:00:00

Capturing STDERR and STDOUT streams in Tests

The way error and output streams are captured has changed. Now instead of:

use CodeIgniter\Test\Filters\CITestStreamFilter;

protected function setUp(): void
{
    CITestStreamFilter::$buffer = '';
    $this->streamFilter         = stream_filter_append(STDOUT, 'CITestStreamFilter');
    $this->streamFilter         = stream_filter_append(STDERR, 'CITestStreamFilter');
}

protected function tearDown(): void
{
    stream_filter_remove($this->streamFilter);
}

you need to use:

use CodeIgniter\Test\Filters\CITestStreamFilter;

protected function setUp(): void
{
    CITestStreamFilter::registration();
    CITestStreamFilter::addOutputFilter();
    CITestStreamFilter::addErrorFilter();
}

protected function tearDown(): void
{
    CITestStreamFilter::removeOutputFilter();
    CITestStreamFilter::removeErrorFilter();
}

Or use the trait CodeIgniter\Test\StreamFilterTrait. See Testing CLI Output.

Interface Changes

Some interfaces have been fixed. See Interface Changes for details.

Foreign Key Data

  • The data structure returned by BaseConnection::getForeignKeyData() has been changed. You will need to adjust any code depending on this method to use the new structure.

Example: tableprefix_table_column1_column2_foreign

The data returned has the following structure:

/**
 * @return array[
 *    {constraint_name} =>
 *        stdClass[
 *            'constraint_name'     => string,
 *            'table_name'          => string,
 *            'column_name'         => string[],
 *            'foreign_table_name'  => string,
 *            'foreign_column_name' => string[],
 *            'on_delete'           => string,
 *            'on_update'           => string,
 *            'match'               => string
 *        ]
 * ]
 */

Breaking Enhancements

Multiple Domain Support

  • If you set Config\App::$allowedHostnames, URL-related functions such as base_url(), current_url(), site_url() will return the URL with the hostname set in Config\App::$allowedHostnames if the current URL matches.

Database

  • The return type of CodeIgniter\Database\Database::loadForge() has been changed to Forge. Extending classes should likewise change the type.
  • The return type of CodeIgniter\Database\Database::loadUtils() has been changed to BaseUtils. Extending classes should likewise change the type.
  • The second parameter $index of BaseBuilder::updateBatch() has changed to $constraints. It now accepts types array, string, or RawSql. Extending classes should likewise change types.
  • The $set parameter of BaseBuilder::insertBatch() and BaseBuilder::updateBatch() now accepts an object of a single row of data. Extending classes should likewise change the type.
  • The third parameter $index of BaseBuilder::_updateBatch() has changed to $values, and the parameter type has changed to array. Extending classes should likewise change the type.
  • The Model::update() method now raises a DatabaseException if it generates an SQL statement without a WHERE clause. If you need to update all records in a table, use Query Builder instead. E.g., $model->builder()->update($data).

Honeypot and CSP

When CSP is enabled, the id attribute id="hpc" will be injected into the container tag for the Honeypot field to hide the field. If the id is already used in your views, you need to change it with Config\Honeypot::$containerId. And you can remove style="display:none" in Config\Honeypot::$container.

Others

  • Helper: Since void HTML elements (e.g. <input>) in html_helper, form_helper or common functions have been changed to be HTML5-compatible by default, if you need to be compatible with XHTML, you must set the $html5 property in app/Config/DocTypes.php to false.
  • CLI: Since the launch of Spark Commands was extracted from CodeIgniter\CodeIgniter, there may be problems running these commands if the Services::codeigniter() service has been overridden.

Project Files

Numerous files in the project space (root, app, public, writable) received updates. Due to these files being outside of the system scope, they will not be changed without your intervention. There are some third-party CodeIgniter modules available to assist with merging changes to the project space: Explore on Packagist.

Content Changes

The following files received significant changes (including deprecations or visual adjustments) and it is recommended that you merge the updated versions with your application:

Config

  • app/Config/App.php
    • The new property $allowedHostnames is added to set allowed hostnames in the site URL other than the hostname in the $baseURL. See Multiple Domain Support.
    • The property $appTimezone has been changed to UTC to avoid being affected by daylight saving time.
  • app/Config/Autoload.php
    • The new property $helpers is added to autoload helpers.
  • app/Config/Database.php
  • app/Config/DocTypes.php
    • The property $html5 to determine whether to remove the solidus (/) character for void HTML elements (e.g. <input>) is added, and set to true by default for HTML5 compatibility.
  • app/Config/Encryption.php
  • app/Config/Exceptions.php
  • app/Config/Honeypot.php
    • The new property $containerId is added to set the id attribute value for the container tag when CSP is enabled.
    • The input tag in the property $template value has been changed to be HTML5-compatible.
  • app/Config/Logger.php
    • The property $threshold has been changed to 9 in environments other than production.
  • app/Config/Modules.php
    • The new property $composerPackages is added to limit Composer package Auto-Discovery for better performance.
  • app/Config/Routes.php
    • Due to the fact that the approach to running Spark Commands has changed, there is no longer a need to load the internal routes of the framework (SYSTEMPATH . 'Config/Routes.php').
  • app/Config/Security.php
    • Changed the value of the property $redirect to false to prevent redirection when a CSRF check fails. This is to make it easier to recognize that it is a CSRF error.
  • app/Config/Session.php
    • Added to handle session configuration.
  • app/Config/Validation.php

View Files

The following view files have been changed to HTML5-compatible tags. Also, error messages are now defined in the Errors language file.

  • app/Views/errors/html/error_404.php
  • app/Views/errors/html/error_exception.php
  • app/Views/errors/html/production.php
  • app/Views/welcome_message.php

All Changes

This is a list of all files in the project space that received changes; many will be simple comments or formatting that have no effect on the runtime. All atomic type properties in Config classes have been typed:

  • app/Config/App.php
  • app/Config/Autoload.php
  • app/Config/CURLRequest.php
  • app/Config/Cache.php
  • app/Config/ContentSecurityPolicy.php
  • app/Config/Cookie.php
  • app/Config/Database.php
  • app/Config/DocTypes.php
  • app/Config/Email.php
  • app/Config/Encryption.php
  • app/Config/Exceptions.php
  • app/Config/Feature.php
  • app/Config/Filters.php
  • app/Config/Format.php
  • app/Config/Generators.php
  • app/Config/Honeypot.php
  • app/Config/Images.php
  • app/Config/Kint.php
  • app/Config/Logger.php
  • app/Config/Migrations.php
  • app/Config/Mimes.php
  • app/Config/Modules.php
  • app/Config/Pager.php
  • app/Config/Paths.php
  • app/Config/Routes.php
  • app/Config/Security.php
  • app/Config/Session.php
  • app/Config/Toolbar.php
  • app/Config/UserAgents.php
  • app/Config/Validation.php
  • app/Views/errors/html/error_404.php
  • app/Views/errors/html/error_exception.php
  • app/Views/errors/html/production.php
  • app/Views/welcome_message.php
  • composer.json
  • env
  • phpunit.xml.dist
  • spark