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Convenience Methods Logging Trait LogTrait Using Monolog Modelless Forms Form Creating a Form Processing Request Data Setting Form Values Getting Form Errors Invalidating Individual Form Fields from Controller Extracting an Excerpt Text::excerpt() Converting an Array to Sentence Form Text::toList() Date & Time FrozenTime Creating FrozenTime Instances Manipulation Formatting FrozenTime::setJsonEncodeFormat Intervals FrozenTime::isWithinNext() FrozenTime::wasWithinLast() FrozenDate Mutable Dates and Times Time Date Accepting Localized Request Data Supported Timezones Xml Xml Loading XML documents Xml::build

Logging Trait Using Monolog Modelless Forms Creating a Form Setting Form Values Getting Form Values Processing Request Data Getting Form Errors Invalidating Individual Form Fields from Controller Creating HTML Truncating the Tail of a String Extracting an Excerpt Converting an Array to Sentence Form Date & Time Creating Time Instances Manipulation Formatting Setting the Default Locale and Format String Formatting class names, filenames, database table names, and other conventions. While the conventions take some time to learn, by following the conventions CakePHP provides you can avoid needless configuration and make

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733 Processing Request Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sentence Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 910 39 Date & Time 911 vii Creating FrozenTime Instances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . class names, filenames, database table names, and other conventions. While the conventions take some time to learn, by following the conventions CakePHP provides you can avoid needless configuration and make

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 753 Processing Request Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 916 39 Date & Time 917 Creating Time Instances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . class names, filenames, database table names, and other conventions. While the conventions take some time to learn, by following the conventions CakePHP provides you can avoid needless configuration and make

/app /lib /plugins /vendors .htaccess index.php README Now might be a good time to learn a bit about how CakePHP’s directory structure works: check out the CakePHP Folder Structure enough to accommodate even the worst legacy database schema, but adhering to convention will save you time. Check out CakePHP Conventions for more information, but suffice it to say that naming our table tell CakePHP where our database is and how to connect to it. For many, this is the first and last time you configure anything. A copy of CakePHP’s database configuration file is found in /app/Config/database

/path_to_document_root /app /lib /plugins /vendors .htaccess index.php README Now might be a good time to learn a bit about how CakePHP’s directory structure works: check out the CakePHP Folder Structure enough to accommodate even the worst legacy database schema, but adhering to convention will save you time. Check out CakePHP Conventions for more information, but suffice it to say that naming our table tell CakePHP where our database is and how to connect to it. For many, this is the first and last time you configure anything. A copy of CakePHP’s database configuration file is found in /app/Config/database