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CakePHP Application Development

By : Ahsanul Bari, Anupom Syam
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CakePHP Application Development

By: Ahsanul Bari, Anupom Syam

Overview of this book

<p>Cake is a rapid development framework for PHP that uses well-known design patterns and provides a structured framework that enables PHP users at all levels to rapidly develop robust web applications, without any loss of flexibility. It means you can code faster, your code is better, and it makes writing Web 2.0-style apps a snap.<br /><br />This book offers step-by-step instructions to learn the CakePHP framework and to quickly develop and deploy web-based applications. It introduces the MVC pattern and coding styles using practical examples. It takes the developer through setting up a CakePHP development and deployment environment, and develops an example application to illustrate all of the techniques you need to write a complete, non-trivial application in PHP. It aims to assist PHP programmers to rapidly develop and deploy well-crafted and robust web-based applications with CakePHP.</p>

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CakePHP Application Development
Ahsanul Bari | Anupom Syam
Jul, 2008 | 332 pages
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Table of Contents (18 chapters)
CakePHP Application Development
CakePHP Application Development
Credits
Credits
About the Authors
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
About the Reviewer
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction to CakePHP
Introduction to CakePHP
What is CakePHP?
Improved Code Structure
Faster Development
Versions of CakePHP: 1.1 and 1.2
Summary
2
A Quick Installation
A Quick Installation
Downloading CakePHP
Platform Requirements
Configuring Apache
Setting Up Cake in Web Root
Running Cake for the First Time
Summary
3
A Quick App
A Quick App
Making Sure the Oven is Ready
CakeTooDoo: a Simple To-do List Application
Configuring Cake to Work with a Database
Writing our First Model
Writing our First Controller
Viewing All Tasks in CakeTooDoo
Adding a New Task
Editing a Task
Adding Data Validation
Deleting a Task from CakeTooDoo
Viewing Completed Tasks and Pending Tasks
Formatting Date and Time
Creating the CakeTooDoo Homepage
Summary
4
Controllers: Programming Application Logic
Controllers: Programming Application Logic
Interacting with Model
Action, Parameters, and Views
Actions and Parameters
Getting Post Data from the View
Redirecting
AppController: The Parent Controller
Working with Components
Summary
5
Models: Accessing Data
Models: Accessing Data
Setting Up Database and Models
Retrieving Data
Saving and Updating Data
Deleting Data
Placing Your Own Logic Inside Model
Validating Your Data
Summary
6
ORM: Modelling the Table Relationship
ORM: Modelling the Table Relationship
Working with Simple Associations
Working with Complex Associations
Summary
7
Views: Creating User Interfaces
Views: Creating User Interfaces
Working with Layouts
Using Elements
Working with Helpers
Creating Forms to Take User Input
Summary
8
Using Shells: Get Further, Faster
Using Shells: Get Further, Faster
Setting Up the Cake Shell
Baking an Application
Summary
9
Making Quickwall: The Basics
Making Quickwall: The Basics
What is This Quickwall All About?
Setting Up Cake
Creating and Connecting the Database
Creating and Defining Relationships between Models
Creating the Basic Controller Actions and Their Views
Adding Custom Layout
Adding Forms to Add New Questions and Answers
Summary
10
Quickwall: User Authentication
Quickwall: User Authentication
Creating the User Model and the Users Controller
Making the User Sign Up Process
Adding Email Confirmation to Sign Up
Integrating Authentication: Database and Models
Integrating Authentication: Controllers
Integrating Authentication: Views
Remembering User with Cookie
Summary
11
Quickwall: JavaScript and AJAX
Quickwall: JavaScript and AJAX
Adding JavaScript Validation
AJAX Link to Show Own Questions
AJAX AutoComplete to Search Users
AJAX Form Submit to View Questions of a User
In-Line Editing to Edit Own Answers
Summary
12
Quickwall: Making It Better
Quickwall: Making It Better
Making Dates More Readable
Creating a User Page
Linking the Search Page to the User Page
Adding Pagination
Adding RSS Feeds
Summary
Index
Index

About the Authors

Ahsanul Bari is a web application developer from Dhaka, Bangladesh. After graduating from North South University with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, he has been involved in developing various web applications for local businesses. At a very early stage of his career, he felt the need for tools and techniques to build structured and maintainable web applications. That is when he found out about CakePHP. It was love at first sight and he decided to use CakePHP for his future projects. He never had to look back, and from then on, he has been heavily using CakePHP for all kinds of projects. Most notably, using CakePHP, he developed an ERP solution for companies involved in urban and land development.

Apart from that, he has also 'irregularly' contributed to the CakePHP Documentation Team. He is also an 'irregular' blogger (http://ahsanity.com and http://ahsanity.wordpress.com). Just when people start to think that he has given up blogging, he is known to write a post from nowhere! Among his friends and colleagues, he is known as a fanboy for CakePHP.

Currently, he is working at Trippert Labs, where he has been involved in making a travel-based blogging system, http://www.trippert.com.

This book could not have been possible without the help and support of many people. I would like to thank Hasin Hyder for encouraging us to write this book. Thanks go to David Barnes, our acquisition editor, for always being the best critic, and giving us the push when we needed one. A special thanks to the hardworking people of PacktPub who made this book a reality. Thanks go to all my colleagues at TrippertLabs, who are eagerly waiting for a treat when the book is out. I would also like to thank all my friends for always encouraging me to carry on writing. I would also like to thank the CakePHP community for developing and maintaining such a wonderful framework. But, I will not thank Anupom, the co-author of this book, because I never thank him for anything.

Lastly, I would like to apologize to the three most dearest persons in my life: my mom, my sister, and my jaan Simin. I have written this book during the time that I was supposed to spend with them.

Anupom Syam is a web application developer from Dhaka, Bangladesh. He started programming back in 1998 in C when he was a high school kid. In his early university years, he met Java and fell in love immediately. Through the years, he has become proficient in various aspects of Java (ME, SE, and EE). Early in his career, he was engaged mainly in building localized mobile applications. Over time, his interest in web technologies grew and he did not hesitate to jump onto the Web 2.0 bandwagon. Over the last five years, he has been working with different startups and building web/mobile applications. He currently works as a Development Engineer at Trippert, Inc. where he has been involved in developing a travel-based blogging system http://www.trippert.com (which is developed using CakePHP) as the lead back-end programmer.

He loves to build rich-client web apps with JavaScript/AJAX in the front end and CakePHP/RoR/MySQL in the back end. He still uses Java heavily for his personal fun-time projects. He also maintains blogs: http://anupom.wordpress.com and http://syamantics.com. Besides programming, he is interested in many things, ranging from the most recent scientific discoveries to ancient Vedic philosophies.

First of all, thanks to my parents and my sweet little sister Antara, who stood by patiently while my weekends were occupied with writing inexplicable technical minutiae! A very special thanks to Hasin Hayder, without his inspiration and encouragement I would never find myself writing a book! Thanks to my colleagues, coworkers, and friends— your endless support kept me going. David Barnes, our acquisition editor at Packt, has my deepest respect and gratitude for his patience, understanding, perseverance and suggestions that had really taught me how to write computer books! Not to mention, the heart and soul effort from people of Packt Publication—Abhijeet Deobhakta, Lata Basantani and Nikhil Bangera who made this book (at last) a reality. Also, thanks to our vigorous and veteran technical editors and reviewers: Rasika, Felix, and Junal, without whom this book would be much less accurate.

And finally, I wish to give my sincerest thanks to the developers of the brilliant PHP framework—CakePHP.

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