CakePHP Application Development

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

Ahsanul Bari

Anupom Syam

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