Rapid Application Development
Rapid Application Development
with CakePHP 2.0
About the Book
This book runs through the process of building a simple pastebin website with the CakePHP web application framework. It covers all the topics in your typical CakePHP tutorial, but takes extra care to point out useful information and techniques for speeding up your own application development.
What you will learn with this eBook-
Developing within a Vagrant Virtual Machine
Ever tire of setting up a local development server just to screw up the rest of your TCP/IP settings? Fret no more as we work within a virtualized server.
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Managing Dependencies via Composer
Installing CakePHP, Plugins, and external libraries need not be difficult. Learn how to use the excellent Composer tool to manage libraries your app uses.
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Custom CakePHP Routes
Customizing your URL structure is important. We go over creating custom route classes, enabling you to really harness the power of the CakePHP Router.
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Using the Powerful Crud Plugin
Tired of writing the same old CRUD code? Ever wanted to expand the way bake generated data internally? Use the Crud plugin to boost your baking skills.
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User Authentication and Authorization
Stop fighting the CakePHP AuthComponent. Learn a quick and easy way to add application authentication and protect your app using the simplest authorization code.
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Deploying your application to Heroku
Rather than attempt to figure out yet another production server, we deploy your application to the cloud using the excellent Heroku platform. For free. Boom.
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Scaffold templates using Bake
Save time with the
bakeCakePHP shell and generate your template files with minimal fuss. -
The CakePHP Event system
Confused on how CakePHP uses events internally? Want to start using them in your everyday code? This book introduces multiple ways to use events. All in simple to understand examples.
About the Author
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Errata and Feedback
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Preface
- whoami
- Is this book for me?
- I’m ready to learn! What now?
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The Setup
- Installing the virtual development environment
- Required accounts
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Prepping our Application
- Dependency Management
- Keeping track of changes via GIT
- Local install of our application
- Summary
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Adding automated testing
- Automated testing
- Setting up a Test Case
- Writing your first Test Case
- Automated testing
- Summary
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Deploying to Heroku
- Heroku setup
- Adding necessary heroku dependencies
- Configuring our PHP buildpack
- View it live
- Summary
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Implementing a Paste
- Schema and Migrations
- Crud
- Pushing to production
- Summary
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Custom Application Actions
- Routing Requests
- Controllers
- Sending custom data to the view
- Using custom templates
- CakePHP templates
- Customizing the look of your application
- Summary
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Public and Private Pastes
- Handling private pastes
- Privacy security
- Summary
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Debugging Data via DebugKit
- DebugKit features
- Creating a DebugKit panel
- Adding new timing calls using DebugTimer
- Summary
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User Authentication
- User Authentication
- Authorizing Paste Access
- Deploying the code
- Summary
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User profiles
- Adding Profile pages
- Managing user accounts
- Summary
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Adding Roles to Users
- Adding the relevant database column
- Using constants to refer to roles
- Overriding roles via a shell
- Deploying the code
- Summary
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Developing a Simple Access Control System
- Annotations in PHP
- Speccing out our plugin
- Test-Driven Plugin Development
- Implementing our plugin
- Deploying the code
- Summary
- Conclusion
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