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Unofficial Resources

Below are some user-contributed resources which may help you.

Note the dates when these resources were published and consider that some of the provided code may not produce expected results with newer versions of the CakePHP framework

# Blogosphere

The following is a list of direct links to searches and feeds that reference CakePHP among sites that index the Blogosphere:

  1. Blog Catalog (Find posts tagged with cakephp) [feed]
  2. Blog Pulse (Find posts that contain "cakephp") [feed]
  3. Megite Discover cakephp (blogs and more)
  4. Technorati (Find posts tagged with cakephp) [feed]

# Communities

  1. CakePHP Developers and Architects Group (LinkedIn)
  2. The Unofficial CakePHP Forum (Invision Power Board)

# In Other Languages

  1. Chinese: Taiwan PHP User Group
  2. French: Cakephp-fr
  3. German: CakePHP-de für deutsche CakePHP Entwickler
  4. Hungarian: CakePHP hu
  5. Japanese: CakePHP Users in Japan
  6. Portuguese: Cake PHP Português
  7. Russian: cake-php-ru
  8. Spanish: CakePHP-es 
  9. Filipino: PHP User-Group Philippines (PHPUGPH)
  10. Persian: CakePHP Users In Persian

# Development Tools

The tools in this list are completely free and can be used when developing with CakePHP.

  1. Wamp -- CakePHP works great with WAMP(Apache, MySQL, PHP on Windows)!
  2. Virtual Appliances (Pre-Configured LAMP Environments)
  3. VMWare Server (Now a free virtualization product)
  4. PDT (Great IDE tool for PHP development)
  5. Open Cake File (A small plugin for switching M,V,C files in eclipse platform, including PDT)

Please do not add tools which are not completely free or which are not used when developing with CakePHP:

# Tutorials

Please keep the following list in alphabetical order using the format "Link, Description [type], Date Of Publication(Month Year)":

  1. 21 Things I learned about about CakePHP [ Also a CakePHP powered site ],   Matt Inman,  September 14, 2006
  2. ACL Tutorials, Aran Johnson [blog], April 2008
  3. Building Your First Facebook Application with CakePHP, Facebook Developer [blog], October 2007
  4. Cook Up Web Sites Fast With CakePHP, 5-Part series from IBM developerWorks [pdf - 119 pages], January 2007
  5. Create A Wiki With CakePHP , IBM [zip - includes pdf and source code], April 2007
  6. Scaffolding With CakePHP, Developer.com [web page], October 2006
  7. The CakePHP Framework: Your First Bite (SitePoint), SitePoint [web page], July 2006
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