CakePHP Application Development Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Preface
• What This Book Covers
• Who is This Book for
• Conventions
• Reader Feedback
• Customer Support
• Downloading the Example Code for the Book
• Errata
• Questions

• Introduction to CakePHP
• What is CakePHP?
• A PHP Framework
• Common Design Patterns
• Rapid Web Development
• Works with PHP4 and PHP5
• CakePHP is Free and Open Source
• Improved Code Structure
• Understanding the MVC Pattern
• Models
• Controllers
• Views
• How It Works
• Faster Development
• Less Configuration, More Convention
• Auto Code Generation
• Quick Access to Related Data
• Built-in Commonly Used Functionalities
• Versions of CakePHP: 1.1 and 1.2
• Summary

• A Quick Installation
• Downloading CakePHP
• Platform Requirements
• Configuring Apache
• AllowOverwrite is Set to All
• Mod_rewrite Module is Loaded
• Setting Up Cake in Web Root
• Running Cake for the First Time
• Summary

• A Quick App
• Making Sure the Oven is Ready
• CakeTooDoo: a Simple To-do List Application
• Configuring Cake to Work with a Database
• Writing our First Model
• Writing our First Controller
• Viewing All Tasks in CakeTooDoo
• Adding a New Task
• Editing a Task
• Adding Data Validation
• Deleting a Task from CakeTooDoo
• Viewing Completed Tasks and Pending Tasks
• Formatting Date and Time
• Creating the CakeTooDoo Homepage
• Summary

• Controllers: Programming Application Logic
• Interacting with Model
• Attaching Models and Controllers
• Action, Parameters, and Views
• Interacting with View
• Actions and Parameters
• Getting Post Data from the View
• Redirecting
• AppController: The Parent Controller
• Working with Components
• Summary

• Models: Accessing Data
• Setting Up Database and Models
• Creating a Model for a Database Table
• Retrieving Data
• Using Model to Retrieve Data
• More on Data Retrieval
• Saving and Updating Data
• Saving Data
• Updating a Record
• More on the save() Method
• Updating a Single Field
• Batch Update
• Deleting Data
• Deleting a Single Record
• Placing Your Own Logic Inside Model
• Create and Use Your Own Model Method
• Validating Your Data
• Adding Validation to Our Model
• Summary

• ORM: Modelling the Table Relationship
• Working with Simple Associations
• Defining One-To-Many Relationship in Models
• Retrieving Related Model Data in One-To-Many Relation
• Saving Related Model Data in One-To-Many Relation
• Adding More than One Association of the Same Type
• One-To-One Relation
• Customizing Association Characteristics
• Working with Complex Associations
• Defining Many-To-Many Relationship in Models
• Retrieving Related Model Data in Many-To-Many Relation
• Saving Related Model Data in Many-To-Many Relation
• Deleting Associated Data
• Changing Association On The Fly
• Summary

• Views: Creating User Interfaces
• Working with Layouts
• Creating Custom Layouts
• Using Elements
• Creating and Using Element
• Working with Helpers
• Creating and Using Your Own Helper
• Creating Forms to Take User Input
• Summary

• Using Shells: Get Further, Faster
• Setting Up the Cake Shell
• Setting Up the Cake Shell in Windows
• Setting Up the Cake Shell in *nix
• Baking an Application
• Creating and Configuring the Database
• Baking Models
• Baking Controllers
• Baking Views
• Summary

• Making Quickwall: The Basics
• What is This Quickwall All About?
• Setting Up Cake
• Creating and Connecting the Database
• Creating and Defining Relationships between Models
• Creating the Basic Controller Actions and Their Views
• Adding Custom Layout
• Adding Forms to Add New Questions and Answers
• Summary

• Quickwall: User Authentication
• Creating the User Model and the Users Controller
• Making the User Sign Up Process
• Adding Email Confirmation to Sign Up
• Integrating Authentication: Database and Models
• Integrating Authentication: Controllers
• Integrating Authentication: Views
• Remembering User with Cookie
• Summary

• Quickwall: JavaScript and AJAX
• Adding JavaScript Validation
• AJAX Link to Show Own Questions
• AJAX AutoComplete to Search Users
• AJAX Form Submit to View Questions of a User
• In-Line Editing to Edit Own Answers
• Summary

• Quickwall: Making It Better
• Making Dates More Readable
• Creating a User Page
• Linking the Search Page to the User Page
• Adding Pagination
• Adding RSS Feeds
• Summary

• Index