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Beginning CakePHP
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
Leads 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. Teaches you to use CakePHP by incorporating advanced features into your web development projects. Targets 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. What you’ll learn Install and configure the CakePHP web framework. Create your first CakePHP web to–do lists. Progress by building a more complex blogging application. Incorporate Ajax and Web 2.0 principles and techniques into your blogging and other CakePHP applications. Apply these sample applications along with advanced techniques as a framework or template for building your own web applications with CakePHP going forward. Who this book is forThis book will speak to an audience of developers already familiar with PHP but who may not be PHP experts. This book is tailored for those new to CakePHP and who want a thorough tutorial.
Leads 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. Teaches you to use CakePHP by incorporating advanced features into your web development projects. Targets 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. What you’ll learn Install and configure the CakePHP web framework. Create your first CakePHP web to–do lists. Progress by building a more complex blogging application. Incorporate Ajax and Web 2.0 principles and techniques into your blogging and other CakePHP applications. Apply these sample applications along with advanced techniques as a framework or template for building your own web applications with CakePHP going forward. Who this book is forThis book will speak to an audience of developers already familiar with PHP but who may not be PHP experts. This book is tailored for those new to CakePHP and who want a thorough tutorial.
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First published January 1, 2008
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September 24, 2008Really really good examples. I've been programming Cakephp since version 1.1 and this book actually helped me a lot to understand the 1.2 version
January 10, 2013
I built an application from scratch using this book as a starting point. I had no Cake experience. It was a great help.
March 27, 2012
Good book that I read in 2008. This is a little outdated now as CakePHP has advanced but the core concepts including the way Cake views MVC are still there.
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