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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

Free Chapter

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

Introduction

Working with the database that powers your application can become a task in itself. Luckily, CakePHP provides a set of tools to easily handle your database schema and migrations.

In this chapter, we'll look at how simple it is to build and maintain your database while keeping your schema changes up to date with your code base.

Note

Note that even if you use the schema and migrations plugin tool, you should take regular and automated backups of your live databases and store the backups on another host to avoid any loss in case of a server crash. The tools described in this chapter will help you save the changes you perform on your database schema, but you'll need to provide additional backup and recovery procedures, just in case of any issues.

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