Practical CakePHP Projects (With Source Code)
English | 2008 | 400 pages | PDF | 22 MB

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

What you’ll learn
•Painlessly create a secure and dynamic web site with CakePHP and MySQL.
•Discover how CakePHP can be used in high–level and demanding applications using CakePHP built–in components as well as methods such as Smarty, caching, and unit testing.
•See how CakePHP integrates with technologies such as Ajax and web services.
•Integrate your own components into CakePHP’s framework.
•Apply CakePHP to mainstream technologies such as Google Video, blogging, mashups, and e–commerce.
•Work through the few pitfalls of some of the CakePHP framework, for example, Access Control Lists.

Table Of Contents
CHAPTER 1 Cake Fundamentals
CHAPTER 2 Blogging
CHAPTER 3 E-Commerce
CHAPTER 4 A Message Forum Web Service
CHAPTER 5 Google Maps and the Traveling Salesman
CHAPTER 6 Mashing Twitter with the Google Translator
CHAPTER 7 Unit Testing and Web Testing
CHAPTER 8 A Cake Control Panel
CHAPTER 9 Translating Stories
CHAPTER 10 Adding Automagic Fields
CHAPTER 11 Cake Tags
CHAPTER 12 Dynamic Data Fields
CHAPTER 13 Captcha