CakePHP

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CakePHP
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CakePHP

• A framework for developing applications in PHP
• Inspired by Ruby on Rails
• Follows MVC design pattern
• Convention over configuration
• No wheel reinventing required!

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MVC

• Model
• Data layer
• View
• Presentation layer
• Controller
• Logic layer

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CakePHP Framework

• app/
• config/
• controllers/
• models/
• plugins/
• tmp/
• vendors/
• views/
• webroot/
• cake/
• config/
• docs/
• libs/
• vendors/

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Naming conventions

• http//book.cakephp.org/view/328/Cake-Conventions
• Table names notes, my_notes
• Model mynote.php-gtMyNote
• Controller my_notes_controller.php-gt
  MyNotesController
• Views named after actions, organised in folders
  according to the related controller
• views/my_notes/index.thtml
• views/my_notes/add.thtml

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Paths parameters

• Cake uses url to pass parameters
• Apache mod_rewrite converts url into scriptname
  and parameters
• http//www.example.com /controllername/action/para
  m1/param2/
• Uses paths to figure out views
• Views stored in controllername folder

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OOP in PHP

• Limited support in PHP lt5
• Much better support in PHP gt5
• Simpler than Java OOP
• class SomeClass
• function func()
• .
• SomeClass s new someClass()
• s-gtfunc()

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Hello world again

• Remember application is separated into model /
  view / controller
• Model

lt?php / /app/model/hello.php / class Hello
extends AppModel var name 'Hello'
var useTable false ?gt
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Hello world again

• View

lt!-- / /app/views/index.thtml / --gt lthr
size1/gt lth1gtlt?php echo data ?gtlt/h1gt lthr size1/gt
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• Controller

lt?php / app/controller/hello_controller.php
/ class HelloController extends AppController
var name "Hello" var uses 'Hello'
function index() data 'Hello world!'
this-gtset('data', data) ?gt
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Simple DB table app

• An online contact list
• We want to add, edit, view and delete names and
  phone numbers
• Uses a single table

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Model

• Add table to DB
• CREATE TABLE cake_contacts (
• id INT UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
• name VARCHAR(50),
• number VARCHAR(50),
• created DATETIME DEFAULT NULL,
• modified DATETIME DEFAULT NULL
• )

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Model

• Add a script called contact.php to models/
• lt?php
• class Contact extends AppModel
• var name Contact'
• ?gt

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View

• views/contacts/index.thtml
• lth1gtContact listlt/h1gt
• ltpgt
• lt?php echo html-gtlink('Add Contact',
  'contacts/add') ?gt
• lt/pgt
• lttablegt
• lttrgt
• ltthgtIdlt/thgt
• ltthgtNamelt/thgt
• ltthgtNumberlt/thgt
• lt/trgt

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View

• views/contacts/index.thtml cntd
• lt?php foreach (contacts as contact) ?gt
• lttrgt
• lttdgtlt?php echo contact'Contact''id'
  ?gtlt/tdgt
• lttdgt
• lt?php
• echo html-gtlink(contact'Contact'name'
  ,
• "contacts/view/contact'Contact''id'"
  )?gt
• lt?php echo html-gtlink('Edit',
• "contacts/edit/contact'Contact''id'"
  )?gt,
• lt?php echo html-gtlink('Delete',
• "contacts/delete/contact'Contact''id'
  ",
• null, 'Sure?')?gt
• lt/tdgt
• lttdgtlt?php echo contact'Contact''created'
  ?gt
• lt/tdgt
• lt/trgt
• lt?php endforeach ?gt
• lt/tablegt

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View

• views/contacts/view.thtml
• lth1gtlt?php echo data'Contact''name'?gtlt/h1gt
• ltpgtltsmallgt
• Created lt?php echo data'Contact''created'?gt
  
• lt/smallgtlt/pgt
• ltpgtlt?php echo data'Contact''number'?gtlt/pgt

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View

• views/contacts/add.thtml
• lth1gtAdd Contactlt/h1gt
• ltform action"lt?php echo html-gturl("contacts/add"
  ) ?gt" method"post"gt
• ltpgtName
• lt?php echo html-gtinput('Contact/name',
  array('size' gt '40')) ?gt
• lt/pgt
• ltpgtNumber
• lt?php echo html-gtinput('Contact/number',
  array('size' gt '40')) ?gt
• lt/pgt
• ltpgtlt?php echo html-gtsubmit('Save') ?gt
• lt/pgt
• lt/formgt

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View

• views/contacts/edit.thtml
• lth1gtEdit Contactlt/h1gt
• ltform action"lt?php echo html-gturl('/contacts/edi
  t')?gt" method"post"gt
• lt?php echo html-gthidden('Contact/id') ?gt
• ltpgtName
• lt?php echo html-gtinput('Contact/name',
• array('size' gt '40')) ?gt
• lt/pgt
• ltpgtNumber
• lt?php echo html-gtinput('Contact/number',
• array('size' gt '40')) ?gt
• lt/pgt
• ltpgt
• lt?php echo html-gtsubmit('Save') ?gt
• lt/pgt
• lt/formgt

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Controller

• /app/controllers/notes_controller.php
• lt?php
• class ContactsController extends AppController
• var name 'Contacts'
• function index()
• this-gtset('contacts', this-gtContact-gtfindAll
  ())
• function view(id)
• this-gtContact-gtid id
• this-gtset('data', this-gtContact-gtread())

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Controller

• /app/controllers/notes_controller.php
• function add()
• if (!empty(this-gtdata'Contact'))
• if(this-gtContact-gtsave(this-gtdata'Contact
  '))
• this-gtflash('Your contact has been
  added.',
• /contacts/')
• function delete(id)
• if (this-gtContact-gtdel(id))
• this-gtflash('The contact with id '.id.'
  has been deleted.', /contacts/')

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Controller

• /app/controllers/notes_controller.php
• function edit(id null)
• if (empty(this-gtdata'Contact'))
• this-gtContact-gtid id
• this-gtdata this-gtContact-gtread()
• else
• if(this-gtContact-gtsave(this-gtdata'Contact
  '))
• this-gtflash('Your contact has been
  updated.',/contacts/')
• ?gt

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Resulting application
../cake/contacts/view/4
../cake/contacts/edit/1
../cake/contacts/add
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Other benefits

• Bake script command line script generator
• Uses LAMP common web platform
• (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP)
• Helpers for HTML, Forms, Pagination, AJAX,
  Javascript, XML, RSS
• Scaffolding (no need for views)
• Create controller with var scaffold

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Disadvantages

• Mainly due to the limitations of PHP
• Clumsy OOP
• Access data through arrays not classes (which RoR
  does) more code in view
• Create tables in separate SQL
• Not well documented yet