Beginning CakePHP From Novice to Professional

CakePHP is a leading PHP–based web app development framework. When asking a question on forums or chat rooms, many CakePHP beginners get little help from the experts. Simple questions can get a response like, “Well, just read the online manual and API.” Unfortunately, the online manual is depreciated, and who wants to absorb a programming language or framework from an API? Beginning CakePHP will do the following:

• Lead you from a basic setup of CakePHP to building a couple applications that will highlight CakePHP’s functionality and capabilities without delving too deeply into the PHP language, but rather what the CakePHP framework can offer the developer.
• Teach you to use CakePHP by incorporating advanced features into your web development projects.
• Target beginners of CakePHP or web frameworks in general as well as experienced developers with limited exposure to CakePHP. A secondary audience may include developers undecided on adopting CakePHP or business managers trying to assess the value of incorporating CakePHP into their toolbox.

Getting Started.- Installing and Running CakePHP.- Creating a To-Do List Application.- Developing CakePHP Applications.- Naming Files and Designing the Database.- Creating Simple Views and Baking in the Console.- Customizing Views.- Working with Controllers and Models.- Implementing Ajax Features.- Advanced CakePHP.- Helpers.- Routes.- Components and Utilities.- Vendors.- Plugins.- DataSources and Behaviors.- Wrapping Up the Application.

David Golding is author of best selling CakePHP book, Beginning CakePHP, as well as a long time web developer, PHP programmer.