Being relatively new to CakePHP, I have been working through the IBM tutorials. In particular, the
Wiki tutorial fits closely to what I want to build for my first CakePHP implementation.
Part 1 of the tutorial was straightforward. This covers the basics of creating a simple set of models, views and controllers. The result is a set of web pages which display data in tables and offer add / edit / delete functionality.
The tutorial is written for v1.1 of the framework. I have opted for v1.2 - so there are some differences.
The first difference is in the scaffolding. CakePHP v1.1 provides a PHP script "bake.php" in the cake/scripts directory. This is an interactive process and you've got to respond to the menus to drive the scaffolding.
$ php ../scripts/bake.php
Baking ...
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Name: app
Path: ~/dev/workspace/cakephp/app
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[M]odel
[V]iew
[C]ontroller
What would you like to bake? (M/V/C)
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CakePHP v1.2 has a command script 'cake' in the cake/console directory. This can be given command-line args so that the scaffolding can be completed quickly with a few simple commands:
$ ../console/cake bake all users
This then builds a model, view and controller for the named table in the database.
