CakePHP 2 Application Cookbook

Over 60 useful recipes for rapid application development with the CakePHP framework

About This Book

• Be introduced to the fundamentals of the CakePHP framework with useful tips and tricks
• Learn best practices and solve the most common problems direct from a CakePHP team member and official trainer
• Create outstanding applications as efficiently as possible

Who This Book Is For

If you are a CakePHP developer looking to ease the burden of development, then this book is for you. As a headfirst dive into the framework, this collection of recipes will help you get the most out of CakePHP, and get your applications baked in no time. Even if you're not familiar with the framework, we'll take you from basic CRUD building to useful solutions that will aid in getting the job done quickly and efficiently.

What You Will Learn

• Start developing quickly with a lightning-fast introduction to CakePHP
• Handle HTTP requests and responses, and common tasks such as file uploads and Ajax calls
• Get up-close and personal with the framework's model layer and events system
• Discover various routing techniques and a selection of API strategies
• Fully exploit the command line and CakePHP's shell capabilities
• Get introduced to the fundamentals of unit testing in the framework
• See how easily you can maintain and migrate your application's database schema

In Detail

CakePHP is the most popular rapid application development framework for PHP. For over 10 years, this open source project has been the go-to solution for quickly and easily building websites and web applications.

Through a series of over 60 recipes, this book takes you from the basic building blocks of the CakePHP framework to the implementation of routine tasks that will help speed up your development even further. From routing to authentication, the model layer and the events system, as well as views and unit testing, you'll learn how to handle the ins and outs of developments using CakePHP. With fast paced recipes written by a core CakePHP member and official trainer, this book is your piece of the cake!