CakePHP is a PHP web framework that helps developers create web applications faster by avoiding repetitive coding tasks. It uses the MVC pattern and features templating, validation, authentication modules, caching, and support for multiple databases. The document provides an overview of CakePHP's features and benefits, installation instructions, and examples of scaffolding and building login and AJAX functionality.

1. CakePHP: An Introduction
Diana Jayne Gonzales
Wingcast Inc.

2. What is CakePHP?

3. Framework
Avoids re-inventing the wheel

5. Cake is for you if you want to...
do more things in less time
use a framework
like ROR
stop creating the same codes
over and over again
templating
searchable URLs
use MVC
use a framework that is suitable for all types of apps

6. What Cake will do for you?
●eases creation of standard content management functionality
(adding, editing and deleting)
●uses template-like Layouts and Views to separate logic from
presentation
●validates form fields
●automatically escapes data saved to the database (to
prevent SQL injection attacks)
●includes callbacks (eg. do an action before or after save)
●allows for both test and production databases

7. Features

8. PHP4 and 5 compatible

9. Multiple DBs

10. ORM - Object Record Mapper
DB Objects

11. Validation

12. Caching

13. AJAX

14. Auth Module - Access Lists

15. Huge Code Base of
Components and Plugins

16. Resources
●Taking A Look on 10 Different Frameworks (http://www.phpit.
net/article/ten-different-php-frameworks/)
●Cook Up Websites Fast with CakePHP (http://www.scribd.
com/doc/5503/
CakePHP-tutorial-no-1-from-IBM)
●The CakePHP Framework: Your First Bite (http://www.
sitepoint.com/article/
application-development-cakephp)
●CakePHP for Beginners: Tutorials (http://grahambird.co.
uk/cake/tutorials/)
●CakePHP Manual
(http://docs.huihoo.com/php/CakePHP-Manual/)

17. Directory Structure
●app/
○config/
○controllers/
○models/
○plugins/
○tmp/
○vendors/
○views/
○webroot/
●cake/
○config/
○docs/
○libs/
●vendors/

18. Installing CakePHP

19. Get cake_1.1.17.5612.zip

20. Unzip to /var/www/

21. Rename folder to 'cake'

22. define('ROOT',
BASE_DIR.'/path_to_cake_ins
tall');
define ('APP_DIR', 'app');
define ('WEBROOT_DIR',
'/public_html');
to app/webroot/index.
php

23. Set up mod_rewrite

24. Setup database on
config/database.php

25. Scaffolding
●analyzes your database tables
●creates standard lists with add, delete and edit buttons
● standard forms for editing and standard views for inspecting
a single item in the database

26. Exercise: Scaffolding a
Bookmarks Manager
automated way of generating a view
based on the model

27. Exercise: Login

28. Exercise: AJAX Task List