10 Must Read CakePHP Tutorials

Ever used CakePHP? Many people have and many have not even heard of CakePHP, so if your a CakePHP ninja or just a mere mortal then this post may provide a great starting resource or a nice refresher.

From the oven:

“CakePHP is a rapid development framework for PHP that provides an extensible architecture for developing, maintaining, and deploying applications. Using commonly known design patterns like MVC and ORMwithin the convention over configuration paradigm, CakePHP reduces development costs and helps developers write less code.” – http://cakephp.org

Getting started with CakePHP

A significant amount of development time with PHP is spent rewriting common code for routine operations such as database access or returning data to the browser. Of course, all this routine code can quickly become disorganized in traditional PHP applications. What is needed is a framework for PHP that does what Ruby On Rails did for Ruby.

Getting Started With Cake PHP: Part 2

This tutorial looks at CakePHP’s rapid development capabilities using a personal blog application as an example. In the next set of tutorials we will build the blog application incrementally so that the basic CakePHP development process is laid out clearly instead of briefly mentioned as in other similar tutorials. In this tutorial we start with a basic authoring authentication component for the example blog application.

How to install CakePHP

Over the past few months I have been getting to grips with CakePHP, a rapid development framework written in PHP that uses the Model, View, Controller (MVC) software design pattern. If you are a PHP programmer then give this framework a try because quite frankly it’s the bee’s knees.

Installing CakePHP on Shared Hosting

I recently installed CakePHP on my hosted web but couldn’t get it to work quite right. After a few hours mucking around I’ve managed to get what I think is the correct installation. Please feel free to comment and correct me where I have made mistakes.

Installing CakePHP on MAMP

I found that helping set up CakePHP on a Mac with MAMP was a bit different and thought I would post here for others to use.

The CakePHP framework

A fantastic guide to thee CakePHP framework.

Build a blog with CakePHP

This tutorial will give you a good start in the world of CakePHP, just to learn the basics of the framework.

Build a Photo Gallery Using CakePHP and Flickr

Want to share your Flickr photostream with the world, but only once you’ve given it a nice, customized touch? Look no further than CakePHP.

8 Ways to Speed Up the Performance of CakePHP Apps

 Some great points on a rather contraverisal post. Great read.

CakePHP cheat sheet

 If your a regular user, or just learning and need a code promt this CakePHP cheat sheet is for you !

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