Beginning CakePHP: From Novice to Professional (Expert's Voice in Web Development) | 
 enlarge | Author: David Golding
Publisher: APRESS
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
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Pages: 344
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Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7 x 0.9
ISBN: 1430209771
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.2762
EAN: 9781430209775
ASIN: 1430209771
Publication Date: July 22, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 Not detailed enough. December 27, 2008
This book really disapointed me. It didn't cover several important topics in as much detail as I would have hoped. Such topics as ACL and Sessions are just mentioned when I was expecting detailed explanations with examples.
Other topics such as "Elements" are not discribed in as much detail as I would have liked.
Not really that impressed...
 Long overdue December 18, 2008
Very readable guide to CakePHP that makes a comprehensive and useful companion to Cake's own website. The author explains the framework very clearly, breaks down the development procedure in simple steps and there are many "a-ha" moments to be had.
I should point out that it's certainly possible to learn Cake from its website and forego this book. However, my own past efforts were frustrated by encountering the inevitable errors/obstacles during the learning process and finding a lack of documentation/assistance. This book fills that gap nicely. (It would appear that more Cake books are being published now - yes, only three, but three more than when I started!)
The book uses an earlier version of Cake and some of the code is different from how the latest version of Cake does things. (This is particularly noticeable when you use Cake's Bake facility to create controller actions.) This results in some of the code not working if you are working with the latest version of Cake. However, with a little persistence, you can still follow the examples and decipher what's going on. (If nothing else, it's interesting to see how the current version of Cake has streamlined many of its procedures).
To get full benefit from the book, you should be comfortable developing in a LAMP environment (or at least have experience in programming). I installed XAMPP and Cake locally - quite simple to do and recommended. It would also help if you knew good (normalised) database design. Finally, there is a section about using Ajax with Cake which is, I feel, optional.
All in all, a great place to start for those who know PHP and who have finally decided to adopt a framework to speed up development.
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