Contents CakePHP at a Glance Conventions Over Configuration The Model Layer The View Layer The Controller Layer CakePHP Request Cycle Just the Start Additional Reading Where to Get Help CakePHP Conventions our Installation CMS Tutorial - Creating the Database Database Configuration Creating our First Model CMS Tutorial - Creating the Articles Controller Create the Article List Template Create the View Guide Fix Deprecation Warnings Upgrade to PHP 8.0 Use the Upgrade Tool Update CakePHP Dependency Application.php 4.0 Migration Guide Deprecated Features Removed Deprecations Breaking Changes New Features

Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The Model Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 7 Configuration 189 Configuring your Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 Additional . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261 Paginating a Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The Model Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 7 Configuration 219 Configuring your Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291 Paginating a Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

Contents CakePHP at a Glance Conventions Over Configuration The Model Layer The View Layer The Controller Layer CakePHP Request Cycle Just the Start Additional Reading Where to Get Help CakePHP Conventions our Installation CMS Tutorial - Creating the Database Database Configuration Creating our First Model CMS Tutorial - Creating the Articles Controller Create the Article List Template Create the View our Installation CMS Tutorial - Creating the Database Database Configuration Creating our First Model CMS Tutorial - Creating the Articles Controller Create the Article List Template Create the View

Configuration Optional Configuration A Note on mod_rewrite Blog Tutorial - Adding a layer Create a Post Model Create a Posts Controller Creating Post Views Adding Posts Data Validation Editing Posts Deleting Rewriting Fire It Up CakePHP Overview What is CakePHP? Why use it? Understanding Model-View-Controller The Model layer The View layer The Controller layer CakePHP request cycle Benefits Where to Get Retrieving Your Data Saving Your Data Deleting Data Data Validation Callback Methods Behaviors DataSources Model Attributes Additional Methods and Properties Virtual fields Transactions Core Libraries General

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Understanding Model-View-Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Where . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650 Improve your application’s performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650 12 Tutorials 654 Simple Authentication and Authorization Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665 Simple Acl controlled Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Contents CakePHP at a Glance Conventions Over Configuration The Model Layer The View Layer The Controller Layer CakePHP Request Cycle Just the Start Additional Reading Where to Get Help CakePHP Conventions Tutorial - Creating the Database Database Configuration Migrations CMS Tutorial - Creating our First Model CMS Tutorial - Creating the Articles Controller Create the Article List Template Create the View Unit IIS7 (Windows hosts) Lighttpd I Can’t Use URL Rewriting Configuration Configuring your Application Loading Additional Configuration Files Environment Variables General Configuration Using a CDN

Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The Model Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 CMS Tutorial - Creating our First Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 CMS Tutorial - Creating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 7 Configuration 121 Configuring your Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Environment