A brief overview of CakePHP concepts.

1. CakePHP: Epic Win

2. Why CakePHP?
MVC, DRY, ORM, and Convention vs. Configuration
Also, it is totally sweet and made of awesome.
“But better die than live mechanically a
life that is a repetition of repetitions.”
- D.H. Lawrence
“Repetition is the death of art.”
- Robin Green, Northern Exposure

3. How does it work?
www.mycakeapp.com/controller/action/params/

4. Use Bake
$ cake/console/cake bake -app /Users/george/Sites/newcakeapp

5. WTF is with Models?
• SRSLY!
• WTF?

6. What to know about
Controllers
$this->set(‘view_var’, $controller_var);