installing cakephp 3 manually, without composer

Question

I need to install CakePHP 3 in an old-fashioned upload-unzip-run way.

The archive I\'ve downloaded from cakephp/cakephp/tags does not contain the default fo

Answer 1

Packaged app (cakephp/app) releases that include all dependencies (framework (cakephp/cakephp), standard CakePHP plugins (cakephp/debugkit, cakephp/bake, etc), required third party libraries) can be found on GitHub.

https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/releases

It's the download with the small package symbol, named like cake-3-x-x.zip.

However, it isn't a good idea to ditch the dependency manager, as keeping the code base and the autoloader up to date will be rather tedious, and, no offense, I have my doubts that you'll be able to handle this properly if you don't even know how to stitch the app and cake packages together.