Practical CakePHP Projects

✍ Scribed by Kai Chan, John Omokore, Richard K. Miller (auth.)

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 388
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

If you've been using PHP for sometime now and would like to start using a web framework, you'll want to try CakePHP, which is an open source rapid development web framework built on PHP.

PHP experts Kai Chan and John Omokore guide you through a variety of practical CakePHP applications. You will work on projects such as a video gallery, unit testing application, an e–commerce app, a blog site, and much more. Practical CakePHP Projects covers the key architectural concepts as well as including mini projects that you can use to enhance your own applications.

• A friendly introduction for any web programmer looking to choose a PHP framework
• Real–world projects based on current and future trends
• Practical CakePHP techniques that you can use right away

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Cake Fundamentals....Pages 1-27
Blogging....Pages 29-46
E-Commerce....Pages 47-83
A Message Forum Web Service....Pages 85-129
Google Maps and the Traveling Salesman....Pages 131-172
Mashing Twitter with the Google Translator....Pages 173-211
Unit Testing and Web Testing....Pages 213-235
A Cake Control Panel....Pages 237-270
Translating Stories....Pages 271-306
Adding Automagic Fields....Pages 307-315
Cake Tags....Pages 317-328
Dynamic Data Fields....Pages 329-358
Captcha....Pages 359-369
Back Matter....Pages 371-379

✦ Subjects

Programming Techniques