MemphisPHP presentation on January 26th 2012 by Brad Hancock.

1. Rapid Application Development
With CakePHP 1.3

2. Who am I
• Brad Hancock
• Twitter @braddhancock
• braddhancock@gmail.com
• Network Security Engineer
• Part-time CakePHP developer.

3. Goals for tonight
• Identify Cake.
• To demonstrate CakePHP’s ability to rapidly
deploy an application.
• Build an application in under 1 hour.

4. What is CakePHP
• Free open-source rapid development framework.
• MVC Architecture.
• Application scaffolding.
• Code Generation.
• Convention over configuration.

5. Steps for prototyping an Application in
CakePHP
• LAMP Installation.
Linux Apache Mysql & PHP
• Build the database.
• Bake the application.
Just that easy
• Run the application.

6. Pre-configuration
Apache 2.2 Web server needs modrewrite enabled
# a2enmod rewrite (debian)
Mysql
Latest CakePHP 1.3 installation from
CakePHP.

7. Steps
• Extract Cake to your apache document root.
• Test that the framework starts.
• Ensure rewrite is enabled.
• Create your database -- mysql
• Create the database tables.
tables names plural
foreign key columns named as tablename_id
(convention over configuration)

8. Bake time.
• ../cake/console/cake bake project – create salt
Hashing in Cake defaults to Sha1. The Salt prevents dictionary attacks on the hash.
• ../cake/console/cake bake db_config -create db con.
Connect Cake to MySQL
• ../cake/console/cake bake model all --models
• ../cake/console/cake bake controller all --controllers
• ../cake/console/cake bake view all -- views

9. See the application
• Automatic generation of CSS and HTML for views.
• Notice associations are automatically created based
on column names.
• Notice Friendly URLs.

10. Validation and Automatic creation of
Form fields.
• Based on user input we can bake model
validation right into the application.
• Quickly rebuilding our model and view if
necessary.

11. Enable Auth Component
• Create User Table
– Must have username and password columns.
– Password Type must be Varchar(40) for hash.
CREATE TABLE users (
id integer auto_increment,
username char(50),
password char(40),
admin int(1),
PRIMARY KEY (id));

12. Add a user and create login view
• Bake the Model, Controller, & View.
• var $components = array('Auth', 'Session');
– Add to the App_Controller.php Parent Controller for all
others.
Modify the User Controller to add the Login and logout
method.

13. Modify the User Controller
class UsersController extends AppController {
var $name = 'Users';
function beforeFilter() {
$this->Auth->allow('*');
}
function login() {
}
function logout() {
$this->redirect($this->Auth->logout());
}
}

14. Create the Login.ctp View
<?php
echo $this->Html->div('',null,array('id'=>'login'));
echo $session->flash('auth');
echo $this->Form->create('User', array(
'action' =>'login',
'autocomplete'=>'off‘
)
);
echo $this->Form->input('username');
echo $this->Form->input('password');
echo $this->Form->end('Login');
?>

15. Customize your app
• Build a menu or modify your opening page.
– app/views/pages/home.ctp
• Modify the CSS styles.
– app/webroot/css
• Customize your views, controllers, &models
– app/views, app/controllers, app/models

16. Learning More
• book.cakephp.org website cookbook
• Books:
– Beginning CakePHP:From Novice to Professional
David Golding. Kindle $18. On Cake 1.2
- Super Awesome Advanced CakePHP tips
Matt Curry. Free www.pseudocoder.com
- CakePHP 1.3 Application Development Cookbook
Mariano Iglesias
• IRC:
– Freenode channel #cakephp

17. IRC
<Ceeram> what do you mean with this then?:
<kidtangerine> he adds public in front of his
functions
> Does that have a question mark on the
end, asshole?