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CakePHP 2 Application Cookbook

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CakePHP 2 Application Cookbook

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CakePHP 2 Application Cookbook
Aug, 2014 | 346 pages
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Table of Contents (20 chapters)
CakePHP 2 Application Cookbook
CakePHP 2 Application Cookbook
Credits
Credits
Foreword
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Lightning Introduction
Lightning Introduction
Introduction
Listing and viewing records
Adding and editing records
Deleting records
Adding a login
Including a plugin
2
Advanced Routing
Advanced Routing
Introduction
Adding a prefix
Handling languages
Custom route class
Dispatch filter
3
HTTP Negotiation
HTTP Negotiation
Introduction
Parsing extensions
Processing Ajax requests
Building a response
Uploading a file
Using a detector
Working with cookies
Cache control
Error handling
4
API Strategies
API Strategies
Introduction
RESTful resources
Exposing a web service
Consuming a service
Authentication API
API versioning
5
Using Authentication
Using Authentication
Introduction
The HTTP authentication
Custom authorize class
Facebook authentication
Custom RBAC
Working with ACL
6
Model Layer
Model Layer
Introduction
Has and belongs to many (HABTM)
Joining through
Containing models
Custom finders
On-the-fly associations
Using transactions
7
Search and Pagination
Search and Pagination
Introduction
Pagination
Basic search and filter
The Search plugin
Advanced search
8
Events System
Events System
Introduction
Listeners and subscribers
Event-driven process
Event stacking
Managing event priorities
9
Creating Shells
Creating Shells
Introduction
Console API
Import parser
Running cron shells
Using the I18n shell
10
View Templates
View Templates
Introduction
Using blocks
Building an XML view
Generating a PDF
Writing some PDF content to a file
Translations
View caching
The AssetCompress plugin
11
Unit Tests
Unit Tests
Introduction
Dependency Injection
Creating a fixture
Mock objects
Stub method configuration
Model unit testing
12
Migrations
Migrations
Introduction
Schema handling
Syncing changes
The Migrations plugin
Injecting data
Index
Index

Introduction

CakePHP is a web framework for rapid application development (RAD), which admittedly covers a wide range of areas and possibilities. However, at its core, it provides a solid architecture for the CRUD (create/read/update/delete) interface.

This chapter is a set of quick-start recipes to dive head first into using the framework and build out a simple CRUD around product management.

If you want to try the code examples on your own, make sure that you have CakePHP 2.5.2 installed and configured to use a database—you should see something like this:

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