"Beginning CakePHP: From Novice to Professional"

eBook Name: Beginning CakePHP: From Novice to Professional
eBook Type: PHP

PHP, MySQL, Perl, CGI Script

CakePHP is a leading PHP based web app development framework.

When asking a question on forums or chat rooms, many CakePHP beginners get little help from the experts.

Simple questions can get a response like, Well, just read the online manual and API.

Unfortunately, the online manual is depreciated, and who wants to absorb a programming language or framework from an API?

Beginning CakePHP will do the following:

* Leads you from a basic setup of CakePHP to building a couple applications that will highlight CakePHP's functionality and capabilities without delving too deeply into the PHP language, but rather what the CakePHP framework can offer the developer.

* Teaches you to use CakePHP by incorporating advanced features into your web development projects.

* Targets beginners of CakePHP or web frameworks in general as well as experienced developers with limited exposure to CakePHP.

A secondary audience may include developers undecided on adopting CakePHP or business managers trying to assess the value of incorporating CakePHP into their toolbox.

What you'll learn

* Install and configure the CakePHP web framework.

* Create your first CakePHP web application: to do lists.

* Progress by building a more complex blogging application.

* Incorporate Ajax and Web 2.0 principles and techniques into your blogging and other CakePHP applications.

* Apply these sample applications along with advanced techniques as a framework or template for building your own web applications with CakePHP going forward.