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 folders like webroot, Model etc., which means it's not complete.
The official documentation does not cover this. Here's a relevant Github issue I found, but the person ends up still using Composer.
There's also cakephp/app and it seems to include those missing files, but it's not mentioned in cakephp/cakephp's composer.json, and even if I download it I've no idea how to merge the packages.
Please help
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.
You can install CakePhp 3 without Composer.
You need minimum requirements to install CakePhp 3 and CakePhp 3 boilerplate ( fresh copy of Cakephp 3 ).
You can download CakePhp 3 boilerplate from github.
Requirements
Server
- HTTP Server. For example: Apache. Having mod_rewrite is preferred,but by no means required.
- PHP 5.4.16 or greater.
- mbstring extension
- intl extension
Database :
- MySQL (5.1.10 or greater)
- PostgreSQL
- Microsoft SQL Server (2008 or higher)
- SQLite 3
All built-in drivers require PDO. You should make sure you have the correct PDO extensions installed.
CakePhp 3 Boilerplate:
Repository Home
https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/releases
CakePhp 3.1.4 https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/releases/download/3.1.4/cakephp-3-1-4.zip CakePhp 3.0.15 https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/releases/download/3.0.15/cakephp-3-0-15.zip
Download one repository and unzip where you wanted to install it.
You may get one error like ( you may not get error if you are lucky!)
Fatal Error
Cake\Error\FatalErrorException
Error: Class 'Cake\Mailer\Email' not found
File D:\xampp\htdocs\practice\cakephp\cakephp-3-1-4\config\bootstrap.php
Line: 138
Then you have to comment two line in config/bootstrap.php
//Email::configTransport(Configure::consume('EmailTransport'));
//Email::config(Configure::consume('Email'));
And finally you got CakePhp 3 installed.
[I am also new in CakePhp 3.So Please inform me if there are any wrong in my given process.]
Thanks
Use Composer.
Install Composer locally, follow the Cake installation instructions, then upload the created folders to the target webhost.
Easy, For CakePHP 3.x you can just download the release you want from here https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/releases (eg. https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/releases/tag/3.3.16).
For a complete installation select the first download link (.zip)
the other links are just for the src
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30412844/installing-cakephp-3-manually-without-composer