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    Rapid Application Development With CakePHP
    Rapid Application Development With CakePHP
    Rapid Application Development With CakePHP
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    Rapid Application Development With CakePHP

    By Jamie Munro

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    About this ebook

    This book was written by a web developer for web developers. It is written in a fashion where it will be useful for beginning web developers and also help advanced web developers learn more.

    To ensure you are not completely lost, knowledge of PHP, Javascript, HTML, and CSS are required. A basic understanding of Object Oriented Programming (OOP) is useful, but not 100 percent required.

    Whether you are an advanced web developer or a beginner looking to learn CakePHP, this book promises to help you build simple and complex web sites, quickly and easily.

    The goal of this book is to provide a wide variety of useful functionality that is required by most websites today. In the final chapter, we will take all that we’ve learned and create one final large project.

    During this process, I will instill my knowledge in taking a project from start to finish including creating a scope of work to ensure we have accomplished our target goals.

    By the end of this book, you should be able to build fully functional websites using CakePHP. Hopefully, you should also be able to cut your development time at least in half, if not more!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJamie Munro
    Release dateJan 31, 2011
    ISBN9781458174796
    Rapid Application Development With CakePHP
    Author

    Jamie Munro

    I have been developing websites both personally and professionally for the past 15 years. During this time I’ve helped engineer dozens of small and large projects using CakePHP as the framework. The ideas and methodologies behind this book all stem from my experience with providing quality web applications to my clients. I am well versed in many web technologies as well as several software development languages. My brain is constantly working as I’m always looking to better myself as I strive to continue my role as lead developer. For more information, visit my blog at http://www.endyourif.com

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      Rapid Application Development With CakePHP - Jamie Munro

      Rapid Application Development with CakePHP

      Written by:

      Jamie Munro

      Published By:

      Jamie Munro on Smashwords

      Website:

      http://www.endyourif.com

      Copyright © 2011 by Jamie Munro

      Table of Contents

      Preface - Who is this book for?

      Chapter 1 - What is CakePHP

      Chapter 2 - How to setup CakePHP

      Chapter 3 - Creating your first CakePHP Website

      Chapter 4 - How to use the bakery

      Chapter 5 - How to setup Authentication

      Chapter 6 - How to create and use components

      Chapter 7 - How to use vendors

      Chapter 8 - Act like a tree

      Chapter 9 - Adding SEO functionality

      Chapter 10 - Optimizing your projects

      Chapter 11 - Putting it all together

      Preface

      Who is this book for?

      This book was written by a web developer for web developers. It is written in a fashion where it will be useful for beginning web developers and also help advanced web developers learn more.

      To ensure you are not completely lost, knowledge of PHP, Javascript, HTML, and CSS are required. A basic understanding of Object Oriented Programming (OOP) is useful, but not 100 percent required.

      Whether you are an advanced web developer or a beginner looking to learn CakePHP, this book promises to help you build simple and complex web sites, quickly and easily.

      The goal of this book is to provide a wide variety of useful functionality that is required by most websites today. In the final chapter, we will take all that we’ve learned and create one final large project.

      During this process, I will instill my knowledge in taking a project from start to finish including creating a scope of work to ensure we have accomplished our target goals.

      By the end of this book, you should be able to build fully functional websites using CakePHP. Hopefully, you should also be able to cut your development time at least in half, if not more!

      About the Author

      I have been developing websites both personally and professionally for the past 10 years. During this time I’ve helped engineer dozens of small and large projects using CakePHP as the framework.

      The ideas and methodologies behind this book all stem from my experience with providing quality web applications to my clients.

      I am well versed in many web technologies as well as several software development languages. My brain is consistently working as I’m always looking to better myself as I strive to continue my role as lead developer.

      For more information, visit my blog athttp://www.endyourif.com

      Chapter 1

      What is CakePHP

      CakePHP was created in 2005 and has evolved quite a bit over the past four years. The founder of CakePHP is Larry E. Masters. It is thanks to this man and his team of developers that CakePHP has such a great framework. In this chapter, we will discuss the technology and architecture behind CakePHP to help provide us an understanding of what CakePHP offers us as developers.

      Objectives

      Understand the technology behind CakePHP

      Learn about the Model-View-Controller architecture

      Learn about the Object-Relational Mapping

      Learn how CakePHP helps us develop faster through Rapid Application Development

      CakePHP is a framework built with and for PHP. CakePHP allows web developers the use of MVC (Model-View-Controller) and ORM (Object-Relational Mapping) to rapidly build web applications.

      Model-View-Controller

      To begin understanding how to build CakePHP websites, it is important to understand what the framework is based on. Like most frameworks, CakePHP is based on the architecture called Model-View-Controller, or its better known acronym MVC.

      MVC makes it easy to distinguish between business logic and the visual appearance of our websites without one affecting the other.

      The Model of the MVC represents the data layer of our application. The data can vary in many ways. It can be an XML file or a CSV file, but more often than not, a model relates to a table in a database.

      The model allows us to interact with the data, but not directly. The framework acts on our behalf and returns the data that we need.

      The View of the MVC represents the visual or view layer of our application. Like the model layer, the view can vary as well. It can output XML, PDF documents, or any other visual data; most use it to output HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language). Views are often referred to as templates.

      Views can be a one-to-one relationship with a webpage you are viewing or it can be made up of several different views. If the elements being displayed are used in several places, one view would be created and called from the other places wishing to display it. This is a form of object oriented programming (OOP).

      The Controller of the MVC represents the business logic. Controllers are also used to interact with both the Model and the View. The two should never interact directly and a controller should always mediate the interaction.

      For example, if we have a view that displays information about a user, our controller would request the data from the user model. The model would fetch and return the information to the controller. The controller would then, if needed, process the data and continue by passing it to use in our view. Our view would then present the information in a useable format to the web browser.

      Controllers are often referred to as the brains of the operation. While this is very true, I am a strong believer in segregating my code into small functions. This ensures that our controllers are neat and tidy.

      As a newbie to CakePHP or MVC in general, it’s quite easy to placeeverythingin our controller. However, after time you will come to learn, and appreciate, that the cleaner we keep our controllers, the easier it will be to maintain and re-use code.

      This will be explained in more detail when we discuss components in chapter 6.

      Object-Relational Mapping

      ORM is a technique that creates a virtual object database. CakePHP uses ORM to convert our database tables into objects that we can manipulate through code without having to interact directly with our database.

      It also makes it easier

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