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CakePHP 2 Application Cookbook - Third Edition

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CakePHP 2 Application Cookbook - Third Edition

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.

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CakePHP 2 Application Cookbook - Third Edition
Aug, 2014 | 346 pages
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Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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
1. Lightning Introduction
1. Lightning Introduction
Introduction
Listing and viewing records
Adding and editing records
Deleting records
Adding a login
Including a plugin
2
2. Advanced Routing
2. Advanced Routing
Introduction
Adding a prefix
Handling languages
Custom route class
Dispatch filter
3
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
4. API Strategies
4. API Strategies
Introduction
RESTful resources
Exposing a web service
Consuming a service
Authentication API
API versioning
5
5. Using Authentication
5. Using Authentication
Introduction
The HTTP authentication
Custom authorize class
Facebook authentication
Custom RBAC
Working with ACL
6
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
7. Search and Pagination
7. Search and Pagination
Introduction
Pagination
Basic search and filter
The Search plugin
Advanced search
8
8. Events System
8. Events System
Introduction
Listeners and subscribers
Event-driven process
Event stacking
Managing event priorities
9
9. Creating Shells
9. Creating Shells
Introduction
Console API
Import parser
Running cron shells
Using the I18n shell
10
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
11. Unit Tests
11. Unit Tests
Introduction
Dependency Injection
Creating a fixture
Mock objects
Stub method configuration
Model unit testing
12
12. Migrations
12. Migrations
Introduction
Schema handling
Syncing changes
The Migrations plugin
Injecting data
13
Index
Index

Console API

CakePHP provides a rich console API to let you create and reuse specific project tasks that are more suited to being executed in a console environment. Keep in mind that when running commands from shell, you're not restricted by the same limitations the web server typically puts on server resources such as memory use and execution time. You can also have a less restrictive PHP configuration for your CLI environment, allow additional PHP extensions, and do more.

In this recipe, we'll create a new console shell and task to explore some of the features of the console shell API. Note that we'll be using a shell named PdfShell as an example, but no real PDF generation will happen.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps:

  1. First, update our existing file named PdfShell.php in app/Console/Command/ with the following content:

    <?php
App::uses('AppShell', 'Console/Command');

class PdfShell extends AppShell {

  public $tasks = array('Generate');

  public function main() {
    $this...
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