The Issue

Today, I cloned an internal CakePHP4 project.
It appeared to work but some translation strings were not displaying correctly.

DDEV generated a config/.env based on config/.env.example.
DDEV (correctly) overrode DATABASE_URL & EMAIL_TRANSPORT_DEFAULT_URL to point to itself.
However, it overrides APP_DEFAULT_LOCALE to en_US which resulted in CakePHP looking for English translation instead of using the Japanese.

Since DDEV does NOT override APP_DEFAULT_TIMEZONE, this feels like unexpected.

How This PR Solves The Issue

The PR does not explicitly set APP_DEFAULT_LOCALE, thus falling back to config/.env.example settings.

Tested on CakePHP4 & CakePHP5

Manual Testing Instructions

1. Check DDEV version

ddev -v
ddev version v1.24.7

1. Create a new CakePHP project following current quickstart guide.

mkdir my-cakephp-site && cd my-cakephp-site
ddev config --project-type=cakephp --docroot=webroot
ddev start
ddev composer create-project --prefer-dist --no-interaction cakephp/app:~5.0

1. Check config/.env

$ cat config/.env | \grep --color=auto APP_DEFAULT
export APP_DEFAULT_LOCALE="en_US"
export APP_DEFAULT_TIMEZONE="UTC"

1. Remove config/.env

rm config/.env

1. Manually update config/.env.example which might normally be configured in a existing project.

export APP_DEFAULT_LOCALE="ja_JP"
export APP_DEFAULT_TIMEZONE="Asia/Tokyo"

1. Restart DDEV to regenerate config/.env

ddev restart

1. Check config/.env contains expected values set above.

$ cat config/.env | \grep --color=auto APP_DEFAULT
export APP_DEFAULT_LOCALE="ja_JP"
export APP_DEFAULT_TIMEZONE="Asia/Tokyo"

Automated Testing Overview

Release/Deployment Notes