Cake PHP

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Cake PHP

• Matthew Concha

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What is Cake?

• Framework for PHP developers
• Free open source
• Model View Controller Architecture

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MVC Architecture

• Input - Processing - Output
• Controller - Model - View

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Steps

• Download CakePHP at cakephp.org
• Newest stable release vs. beta

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Server Requirements

• HTTP server, Apache
• PHP 4.3.2 or greater
• Database engine, mySQL

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XAMPP

• Apache mySql structure
• Gives you development freedom
• Fixed drive
• Flash device

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Testing

• http//127.0.0.1
• Put cake into folder
• Add table data to database
• Check data

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mySQL query browser
mysql-gui-tools-5.0-r12-win32
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Finally some CAKE?

• Your database configuration file is present.
• Cake is able to connect to the database.
• http//127.0.0.1/cake/

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Blog
Add post cake/posts/add Delete
cake/posts/delete Titles cake/posts/views/14
(uses id) as parameter
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Models

• It separates domain logic from the presentation,
  isolating application logic.

'Post' var validate array(
'title' VALID_NOT_EMPTY, 'body'
VALID_NOT_EMPTY ) ?
Post by default works with the posts table in
the database
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Controllers

• Talk to one specific model
• PostsController contains functions of views.

class PostsController extends AppController
var name 'Posts' function index()
this-set('posts', this-Post-findAll()
)
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Views

• Thtml suffix

Blog posts html-link('Add Post', '/posts/add')
? Id
Title Created



html-link(post'Post''title',
'/posts/view/'.post'Post''id')?
link(
'Delete', "/posts/delete/post'P
ost''id'", null,
'Are you sure?' )?
post'Post''created' ?

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Problems

• Mod_rewrite URL rewriter, uncomment
• Setting up passwords, login info
• Refresh issues
• Clear the cache
• Stop/start database

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References

• http//www.cakephp.org
• http//www.sourceforge.net/projects/xampp
• http//dev.mysql.com/downloads/gui-tools