You may have heard of REST at some point during your time in development. Representational State Transfer is an API architecture design which exposes resources over a stateless communication, using the HTTP methods of the protocol to facilitate polymorphism through a simplified and uniform API interface.

In this recipe we'll look at how easily REST can be implemented in CakePHP by leveraging the functionality provided by the framework.

CREATE TABLE posts (
  id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  title VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
  content TEXT,
  created DATETIME,
  modified DATETIME,
  PRIMARY KEY(id)
);

INSERT INTO posts (title, content, created, modified)
VALUES
('Baking cakes', 'Baking is easy with CakePHP', NOW(), NOW()),
('How...