CakePhp Interview questions and answers

1. CAKEPHP
Interview- Questions
Exp.1-3 years
Created by : Pankaj Chauhan

2. Cakephp Folder
App Config Controllers
--Model Plugins --Tmp
Vendors --View --Webroot
-- Cake Config Docs
Libs --vendor --console
app --controller

3. Ques-1 – What is the first file that get loaded
when you run a application using cakephp,
Can we change that file?
 Ans: First call file is bootstrap.php, yes it can
changed , either through index.php or
.htaccess file.
Ques-2: Is any drawback using cakephp?
 Ans: Its loads full application before it starts
your task. It is not recommended for small
projects because of its resource heavy
structure.

4. Ques: What is model, View, Controller.
 Ans: MVC is an architectural pattern used in
software engineering. Successful use of
pattern isolates the business logic from user
interface as well as database
(fetching/Saving) data.
 M --> Model represents the information (the
data) of the application.
 V --> View is user interfaces
 C -->Controller manages the communication
of data and the business rules used to
manipulate the data to and from the model.

5. Client
Views
Dispatcher
Model
Controller

6. Ques: What is naming convention in
cakephp?
 Ans: 1. Table Name : Plural and lowercased.
 2. Model Class  Singular and CamelCased
eg.ModelName
 3. Model filename  Singular and underscore
eg. Model_name.php
 4. Controller Class  Plural and CamelCase
with Controller appended. Eg.
ControllerNamesController.
 5. Controller filename  Plural and
underscored with controller appended.
 Eg. Controller_names_controller.php

7. Ques: What are components and helper and
why they are used?
 Ans: A Component is an independent piece
of code written for specific task that can be
used (eg. Email, Ajax, RequestHelper and
sessions)
A helper is used for helping cakephp in
rendering data to be shown to user with views
(eg. Form, Html etc.)

8. Commonly used
components
Security
 Sessions
 Acl (Access control lists)
 Auth (Authentications)
 Emails
 Cookies
 RequestHandling
MVC Architecture, Built in validation
 Caching, Scaffolding

9. HABTM?
Has And Belongs To Many
Ques: What is Scaffolding ?
Ans: Scaffolding is Automatic CRUD creation.

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