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CakePHP 2 Application Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Watts

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CakePHP 2 Application Cookbook

4.2 (6)

By: Watts

Overview of this book

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.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. Lightning Introduction

1. Lightning Introduction

Introduction

Listing and viewing records

Adding and editing records

Deleting records

Adding a login

Including a plugin

2. Advanced Routing

2. Advanced Routing

Introduction

Adding a prefix

Handling languages

Custom route class

Dispatch filter

3. HTTP Negotiation

3. 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

4. API Strategies

Introduction

RESTful resources

Exposing a web service

Consuming a service

Authentication API

API versioning

5. Using Authentication

5. Using Authentication

Introduction

The HTTP authentication

Custom authorize class

Facebook authentication

Custom RBAC

Working with ACL

6. Model Layer

6. 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

7. Search and Pagination

Introduction

Pagination

Basic search and filter

The Search plugin

Advanced search

8. Events System

8. Events System

Introduction

Listeners and subscribers

Event-driven process

Event stacking

Managing event priorities

9. Creating Shells

9. Creating Shells

Introduction

Console API

Import parser

Running cron shells

Using the I18n shell

10. View Templates

10. 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

11. Unit Tests

Introduction

Dependency Injection

Creating a fixture

Mock objects

Stub method configuration

Model unit testing

12. Migrations

12. Migrations

Introduction

Schema handling

Syncing changes

The Migrations plugin

Injecting data

Index

Index

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View caching

Caching your views is an important step towards improving the loading time of your application as content is served faster. This can have a noticeable effect on users, as they get to content and features quicker, making them a bit happier.

In this recipe, we'll build an example scenario that shows off some of the base caching features of CakePHP.

Getting ready

First, open your core.php file in app/Config/, make sure the following line is not commented out, and set it to true:

Configure::write('Cache.check', true);

This configuration option enables and generates cached view files for requests.

Also, in your bootstrap.php file in app/Config/, make sure that CacheDispatcher is set in your Dispatcher.filters configuration. Take a look at the following example:

Configure::write('Dispatcher.filters', array(
  'AssetDispatcher',
  'CacheDispatcher'
));

We'll then need a controller to work with. So, create a TimestampsController.php file in...

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