Presentation by Peter Martinez of FIU Online

1. CakePHP
Rapid Development Framework

2. What is Cake & Why?
Free & Open Source.
Rapid Development Frame Work Based Around MVC
Methodology.
Templating, Helpers, Components. In short reusable
code!
Built in Email, Cookie, Security, Session & Request
Handling Components.
Caching.

3. Modle View Controller
Model View Controller design patter is based upon
separating your code into three sections.
The Model represents the application data.
The View renders a presentation of the model data.
The Controller handles & routes requests made by
the client.

4. Modle View Controller

5. Basic Principles of CakePHP
Conventions
Extensions
Controller Extensions - Components
View Extensions - Helpers
Model Extensions - Behaviors
CSS/HTML - Elements

6. Typical Request

7. Directories
Config - Holds the application configuration files.
Database connection
Bootstrap
Core
Controllers - Contains your application controller &
components.
Models - Contains your application models, behaviors
& data sources.

8. Directories
Tmp - This is where CakePHP stores temporary data.
Vendors - Third Party Libraries.
Views - What the user sees.
Webroot - Contains CSS/JS/Flash/Etc Files

9. Quick Demo
Demo Goals
Install CakePHP
Install a Component
Configure Routes
Retrieve Data from 3rd Party API

10. The End
Questions? :)