as I don’t have admin on my TTY access to my webhost and composer is not installed
Developing remotely is bad bad idea and will lead to various problems in general. Always develop locally and then deploy to remote.
On the /articles page there is a link in the top right titled “API” which refers to https://api.cakephp.org/4/ which gives [me] a 404 error.
Due to various technical issue we still don’t have the API docs for v4 available sorry about that.
Even in the final version of src/Controller/ArticlesController.php that comment is still there
Seems you missed one or more steps of the tutorial CMS Tutorial - Authorization - 4.x shows how to get the user id from the Authentication
component to replaced the hardcoded one.
downloaded the source provided on github and it had
Oops, seems we have missed updating the cakephp/cms-tutorial
tutorial repo for CakePHP 4. I have opened a ticket for it.
I have submitted a patch for couple of other issues you have noted Fixes to CMS tutorial by ADmad · Pull Request #6431 · cakephp/docs · GitHub.