CakePHP: An Introduction

1. CakePHP: An Introduction
Diana Jayne Gonzales
Wingcast Inc.

2. What is CakePHP?

3. Framework
Avoids re-inventing the wheel

5. Cake is for you if you want to...
do more things in less time
use a framework
like ROR
stop creating the same codes
over and over again
templating
searchable URLs
use MVC
use a framework that is suitable for all types of apps

6. What Cake will do for you?
●eases creation of standard content management functionality
(adding, editing and deleting)

●uses template-like Layouts and Views to separate logic from
presentation

●validates form fields

●automatically escapes data saved to the database (to
prevent SQL injection attacks)

●includes callbacks (eg. do an action before or after save)

●allows for both test and production databases

7. Features

8. PHP4 and 5 compatible

9. Multiple DBs

10. ORM - Object Record Mapper
DB Objects

11. Validation

12. Caching

13. AJAX

14. Auth Module - Access Lists

15. Huge Code Base of
Components and Plugins

16. Resources
●Taking A Look on 10 Different Frameworks (http://www.phpit.
net/article/ten-different-php-frameworks/)

●Cook Up Websites Fast with CakePHP (http://www.scribd.
com/doc/5503/
CakePHP-tutorial-no-1-from-IBM)

●The CakePHP Framework: Your First Bite (http://www.
sitepoint.com/article/
application-development-cakephp)

●CakePHP for Beginners: Tutorials (http://grahambird.co.
uk/cake/tutorials/)

●CakePHP Manual
(http://docs.huihoo.com/php/CakePHP-Manual/)

17. Directory Structure
●app/
○config/
○controllers/
○models/
○plugins/
○tmp/
○vendors/
○views/
○webroot/
●cake/
○config/
○docs/
○libs/
●vendors/

18. Installing CakePHP

19. Get cake_1.1.17.5612.zip

20. Unzip to /var/www/

21. Rename folder to 'cake'

22. define('ROOT',
BASE_DIR.'/path_to_cake_ins
tall');
define ('APP_DIR', 'app');
define ('WEBROOT_DIR',
'/public_html');

to app/webroot/index.
php

23. Set up mod_rewrite

24. Setup database on
config/database.php

25. Scaffolding
●analyzes your database tables

●creates standard lists with add, delete and edit buttons

● standard forms for editing and standard views for inspecting
a single item in the database

26. Exercise: Scaffolding a
Bookmarks Manager
automated way of generating a view
based on the model

27. Exercise: Login

28. Exercise: AJAX Task List