This document provides an introduction and overview of the CakePHP framework. It discusses the MVC architecture that CakePHP follows and describes the framework's folder structure and conventions. The document outlines how CakePHP uses configurations for the database, core, and routes. It also provides examples of how controller classes, model classes, and views are structured in CakePHP applications.

1. CakePHP Framework
Cake chefs:
Mohamed Samir
Moustafa Badawy

2. Agenda
• Introduction.
• MVC model of cakePHP.
• Folders structure and configurations.
• Controllers, Models and Views.
• Final look on the model.
• A big demo.

3. Introduction
• Cakephp = Free + OpenSource
• Some Features:
– Active, friendly community
– Compatible with versions 4 and 5 of PHP
– MVC architecture
– Built-in validation
– Works from any web site directory, with little to
no Apache configuration involved.

4. MVC
• CakePHP follows the MVC software design
pattern.
– The Model represents the application data
– The View renders a presentation of model data
– The Controller handles and routes requests made
by the client

5. MVC (cont.)
http://www.example.com/cakes/buy

6. MVC (cont.)
http://www.example.com/cakes/buy

7. Folder Structure
• Cakephp folder:
– App
– Cake [The core file of cake is here]
– Vendors [ Third-party PHP libraries is here]
– .htaccess
– index.php
– README

8. Folder Structure (cont.)
• Any application:

9. CakePHP Conventions
• Conventions => you may feel that it will waste
your time while it is actually saving it !! ?
• Because it gives you free functionality
• Conventions for:
– Model and database
– Controller
– Views

10. CakePHP Conventions (cont.)
• Any PHP file > underscored
• Like> any_file.php
• Any Class > CamelCased
• Like> anyClass
• Model classes > singular and CamelCased
• Like > Person, BigPerson
• Database tables > plural and underscored
• Like> persons, big_persons
• Controllers> CamelCased, and end ‘Controller’
• Like>PersonController

11. CakePHP Conventions (cont.)
• Database table:
• "people"
• Model class:
• "Person", found at /app/models/person.php
• Controller class:
• "PeopleController", found at /app/controllers/people_controller.php
• View template, found at
• /app/views/people/index.ctp
• Using these conventions, CakePHP knows that a request to
http://example.com/people/ maps to a call on the index() function of the
PeopleController, where the Person model is automatically available (and
automatically tied to the ‘people’ table in the database), and renders to a
file. None of these relationships have been configured by any means other
than by creating classes and files that you’d need to create anyway

12. CakeConfiguration
• Configurations needed:
– Database configuration
– To be able to connect a database to your application by giving
the parameters needed like username…etc
– Core configuration
– Here you configure application settings like sessions,
caching,…etc
– Routes configurations
– Here you configure how to parse a Url and what actions to
take then.

13. Database Configurations
• Can be found at > app/config/database.php

14. Core Configurations
Variable Description
debug 0 = Production mode. No output.
1 = Show errors and warnings.
2 = Show errors, warnings, and SQL.
3 = Show errors, warnings, SQL, and complete
controller dump.
Session.save -php = Use the default PHP session storage.
-cake = Store session data in /app/tmp
-database = store session data in a database
table.
Cache.disable When set to true, caching is disabled site-
wide.
Session.table The name of the table (not including any
prefix) that stores session information.
Session.*

15. Routes Configurations
• Found at > app/config/routes.php
• Example:

16. Enough Configurations :)
• Main components structure:
• Controller classes structure
• Model classes structure
• Views structure

17. Controller classes structure
Controller
AppController
Any controller
shares its attributes and
parameters with all its children
controllers

18. Controller classes structure
• Attributes:
• Interacting with views & Model:
Model Interaction
View Interaction

19. Model classes structure
Model
AppModel
Any model

20. Model classes structure
• Example:

21. Views structure
• Example:
Header for all pages
Page content
Footer for all pages

22. Final view before the Demo
Controller Model
View
data
2
3
1
6
5
4
Find()
Save(data)
set(data)
Render(view)
Logic

23. Demo
Show time

24. References
• http://book.cakephp.org
• http://aidanlister.com/2009/05/creating-a-
community-in-five-minutes-with-cakephp/

25. Thanks
Any Questions ?
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