Beginning CakePHP: From Novice to Professional

by David Golding

CakePHP is a leading PHP–based web app development framework. When asking a question on forums or chat rooms, many CakePHP beginners get little help from the experts. Simple questions can get a response like, “Well, just read the online manual and API.” Unfortunately, the online manual is depreciated, and who wants to absorb a programming language or framework from an API? Beginning CakePHP will do the

Lead you from a basic setup of CakePHP to building a couple applications that will highlight CakePHP's functionality and capabilities without delving too deeply into the PHP language, but rather what the CakePHP framework can offer the developer. Teach you to use CakePHP by incorporating advanced features into your web development projects. Target beginners of CakePHP or web frameworks in general as well as experienced developers with limited exposure to CakePHP. A secondary audience may include developers undecided on adopting CakePHP or business managers trying to assess the value of incorporating CakePHP into their toolbox.

Genres: Programming

364 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2008

Reviews

[Azril Nazli]

Really really good examples. I've been programming Cakephp since version 1.1 and this book actually helped me a lot to understand the 1.2 version

[Brad Hancock · Rating 5 out of 5]

I built an application from scratch using this book as a starting point. I had no Cake experience. It was a great help.

[Ben Reyes · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book that I read in 2008. This is a little outdated now as CakePHP has advanced but the core concepts including the way Cake views MVC are still there.