Preface

With this book, we've aimed to cover and resolve the typically common tasks when working with CakePHP. To do this, we collected the most popular questions from support websites around the Web on how to use certain features or perform common actions with the framework, and ranked them in order of frequency. We then proposed a solution for each of these; once this was done, we put together what we considered to be a comprehensive guide to how to get the job done fast, and right, in each scenario.

While we've done our best to approach each topic with a sound solution, we have been aware of the possibly uneven level of technical knowledge each reader may have. So, where possible, we've tried to keep our examples in line with simple or reasonably understandable parameters so as to reduce any additional knowledge that would potentially be required in each case.

We've dedicated many hours to reviewing each case and hope that you find something useful throughout the scenarios we've outlined. Where it's been obvious, we've relied on basic knowledge of the framework so as to not overburden each tutorial with additional instructions. However, for anyone completely new to the framework, after completing the blog tutorial included in the CakePHP documentation (http://book.cakephp.org), you should feel quite comfortable with the assumptions we've made along the way.