File and Folder naming
In CakePHP 2.0 we rethought the way we are structuring our files and folders. Given that PHP 5.3 is supporting namespaces we decided to prepare our code base for adopting in a near future this PHP version, so we adopted the http://groups.google.com/group/php-standards/web/psr-0-final-proposal. At first we glanced at the internal structure of CakePHP 1.3 and realized that after all these years there was no clear organization in the files, nor did the directory structure really hint where each file should be located. With this change we would be allowed to experiment a little with (almost) automatic class loading for increasing the overall framework performance.
Biggest roadblock for achieving this was maintaining some sort of backwards compatibility in the way the classes are loaded right now, and we definitely did not want to become a framework of huge class prefixes, having classnames like My_Huge_Class_Name_In_Package. We decided adopting a strategy of keeping simple class names while offering a very intuitive way of declaring class locations and clear migration path for future PHP 5.3 version of CakePHP
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Having been a long-time user of CakePHP 1.3, I was wondering why file and folder names are now CamelCased rather than just being lowercase and underscored?Personally, I'm a fan of using lowercase and underscores in filenames (then CamelCase in my actual class declarations) so this change is pretty jarring to me.--
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