--- title: CakePHP is now fully generics-able – DerEuroMark | daily.dev description: CakePHP 5.3.6 and cakephp-ide-helper 2.19.3 together enable full PHPStan level 8 compliance with generics, eliminating missingType.generics and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/cakephp-is-now-fully-generics-able-dereuromark-cwz39vwo6 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: CakePHP is now fully generics-able – DerEuroMark | daily.dev og:description: CakePHP 5.3.6 and cakephp-ide-helper 2.19.3 together enable full PHPStan level 8 compliance with generics, eliminating missingType.generics and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/cakephp-is-now-fully-generics-able-dereuromark-cwz39vwo6 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/CWZ39VWO6.png og:image:alt: CakePHP is now fully generics-able – DerEuroMark og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # CakePHP is now fully generics-able – DerEuroMark **[DerEuroMark](https://daily.dev/sources/dereuromark)** · 4 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary CakePHP 5.3.6 and cakephp-ide-helper 2.19.3 together enable full PHPStan level 8 compliance with generics, eliminating missingType.generics and missingType.iterableValue warnings without blanket ignores. The ORM, View, and Event layers now carry proper @template declarations, while the IdeHelper auto-generates matching parameterized doc-blocks into source files. Enabling the IdeHelper.genericsInParam config option and re-running the annotator reduces errors from hundreds to zero. A contravariance gotcha with overridden methods is explained, with the fix being to use the equal-width array type rather than a narrower one. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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