This document provides an overview of building a real world web application in 2 hours or less using CakePHP and MySQL. It introduces the speakers and demonstrates connecting to a server, setting up a database with tables and sample data, and using CakePHP's MVC framework to build out a student management application with basic CRUD functionality. Key aspects covered include generating models, controllers and views to display and add students. The goal is to provide an interactive follow along tutorial for creating a simple but functional web app from start to finish in a short period of time.

2. Real World Web App Development(in 2 hours or less) GT College of Computing October 13, 2010 Jason Ardell Joshua Silver

3. What do we mean, “Real World”Web App Development?

4. What are we building?(Demo)

5. Who are we? Joshua Silver @1yellowbrick Joshua.silver@securehealthpay.com CS ‘09 Jason Ardell @ardell ardell@gmail.com CS ‘05

7. Our Toolkit Today

8. What is MVC and why use it?

9. http://betterexplained.com/articles/intermediate-rails-understanding-models-views-and-controllers/

10. InteractiveFollow along at:http://github.com/joshuasilver/RealWorldWebApp

12. Connect to Server You should have credentials http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5037034/gt.txt $> ssh root@[your.ip.address] [enter password]

13. Connect to MySQL Once logged in, from Command line: # mysql -u cakephpuser -p cakephpdb Enter password: << PASSWORD IS: foo Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or . Your MySQL connection id is 183 Server version: 5.1.41-3ubuntu12.6-log (Ubuntu) Type 'help;' or '' for help. Type '' to clear the current input statement. mysql>

14. Setup DB cd /var/www/cakephp nano db_schema.sql (Be sure to use spaces, not tabs)

15. Make sure it worked mysql> source db_schema.sql mysql> show tables; +---------------------+ | Tables_in_cakephpdb | +---------------------+ | students | +---------------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) mysql> describe students; +--------------+------------------+------+-----+-------------------+----------------+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +--------------+------------------+------+-----+-------------------+----------------+ | id | int(10) unsigned | NO | PRI | NULL | auto_increment | | first_name | varchar(50) | NO | | NULL | | | last_name | varchar(50) | NO | | NULL | | | phone_number | char(12) | NO | | NULL | | | time_created | timestamp | NO | | CURRENT_TIMESTAMP | | +--------------+------------------+------+-----+-------------------+----------------+ 5 rows in set (0.01 sec)

16. Insert Fake Data cd /var/www/cakephp nano db_testdata.sql (Be sure to use spaces, not tabs)

17. Make sure it worked mysql> source db_testdata.sql mysql> select * from students; +----+------------+-----------+--------------+---------------------+ | id | first_name | last_name | phone_number | time_created | +----+------------+-----------+--------------+---------------------+ | 1 | John | Doe | 678-555-0000 | 2010-10-13 16:08:22 | | 2 | Sally | Smith | 770-555-1234 | 2010-10-13 16:08:23 | +----+------------+-----------+--------------+---------------------+ 2 rows in set (0.00 sec)

18. Done with MySQLOver to CakePHP … its already installed cd /var/www/cakephp

19. Tour of CakePHP All we care about is: /app/models/ /app/views/ /app/controllers/

20. A few notes For automagic to work, you must name your files exactly to the spec. (case and spacing sensitive)

21. Create a student model # nano /var/www/cakephp/app/models/student.php <?php class Student extends AppModel { var $name = 'Student'; } // CakePHPautomagically completes the rest ?>

22. Create a student controller # nano /var/www/cakephp/app/controllers/students_controller.php <?php class StudentsController extends AppController { var $name = 'Students'; function index() { $this->set('studentList', $this->Student->find('all')); } } ?>

23. Views Class name Method Names

24. Create student view folder # mkdir /var/www/cakephp/app/views/students

25. nano /var/www/cakephp/app/views/students/index.ctp root@gt-tutorial-jos <h1>Students</h1> <table> <tr> <th>Id</th> <th>First Name</th> <th>Last Name</th> <th>Phone Number</th> <th>Created</th> </tr> <!-- Here is where we loop through our $students array, printing out the students --> <?phpforeach ($studentListas $student): ?> <tr> <td><?php echo $student['Student']['id']; ?></td> <td><?php echo $student['Student']['first_name']; ?></td> <td><?php echo $student['Student']['last_name']; ?></td> <td><?php echo $student['Student']['phone_number']; ?></td> <td><?php echo $student['Student']['time_created']; ?></td> </tr> <?phpendforeach; ?> </table> Add index view

26. http://{ip_address}/students/index Method Controller

28. Let’s figure out how to add a student 1.) Add new method called “add” to students_controller 2.) Make associated view 3.) Add link on homepage to add a student

29. nano /var/www/cakephp/app/controllers/students_controller.php <?php class StudentsController extends AppController { var $name = 'Students'; function index() { $this->set('studentList', $this->Student->find('all')); } function add() { if (!empty($this->data)) { if ($this->Student->save($this->data)) { $this->Session->setFlash('Your student has been added.'); $this->redirect(array('action' => 'index')); } } }

30. Add view <h1>Add Student</h1> <?php echo $form->create('Student'); echo $form->input('first_name'); echo $form->input('last_name'); echo $form->input('phone_number'); echo $form->end('Add Student'); ?> <?php echo $html->link("Add Student", array('controller' => 'students', 'action' => 'add')); ?> Add link on homepage (index.ctp)

32. Twilio