Contents

• Welcome
  • Getting started
    • Build a blog
    • Conventions
    • Controllers
    • Views
    • Models
  • Getting Help
• Installation
  • Requirements
  • License
  • Downloading CakePHP
  • Permissions
  • Setup
  • Development
    • Using one CakePHP checkout for multiple applications
  • Production
  • Advanced Installation and server specific configuration
    • Advanced Installation
  • Fire It Up
• Getting Started
  • Blog Tutorial
    • Getting Cake
    • Creating the Blog Database
    • Cake Database 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 Posts
    • Routes
    • Conclusion
    • Additional Reading
• 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 Help
    • The Official CakePHP website
    • The Cookbook
    • The Bakery
    • The API
    • The Test Cases
    • The IRC channel
    • The Google Group
    • CakePHP Questions
• Controllers
  • The App Controller
  • Request parameters
  • Controller actions
  • Request Life-cycle callbacks
  • Controller Methods
    • Interacting with Views
    • Flow Control
    • Callbacks
    • Other Useful Methods
  • Controller Attributes
    • $components, $helpers and $uses
    • Other Attributes
  • More on controllers
    • Request and Response objects
    • CakeRequest
    • CakeResponse
    • Scaffolding
    • The Pages Controller
    • Components
• Views
  • View Templates
    • Extending Views
  • Using view blocks
    • Displaying blocks
    • Using blocks for script and CSS files
  • Layouts
    • Using layouts from plugins
  • Elements
    • Passing Variables into an Element
    • Caching Elements
    • Requesting Elements from a Plugin
    • 2.0
    • 2.1
  • View API
  • More about Views
    • Themes
    • Media Views
    • JSON and XML views
    • Helpers
• Models
  • Understanding Models
  • More on models
    • Associations: Linking Models Together
    • 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 purpose
    • Global Constants and Functions
    • Events System
    • Collections
  • Components
    • Access Control Lists
    • Authentication
    • Cookie
    • EmailComponent
    • Request Handling
    • Pagination
    • Security
    • Sessions
  • Helpers
    • CacheHelper
    • FormHelper
    • HtmlHelper
    • JsHelper
    • NumberHelper
    • Paginator
    • RSS
    • SessionHelper
    • TextHelper
    • TimeHelper
  • Behaviors
    • ACL
    • Containable
    • Translate
    • Tree
  • Core Libraries
    • App Class
    • Caching
    • CakeEmail
    • CakeNumber
    • CakeTime
    • Data Sanitization
    • Folder & File
    • HttpSocket
    • Inflector
    • Internationalization & Localization
    • Logging
    • Router
    • Security
    • Set
    • String
    • Xml
• Plugins
  • Installing a Plugin
  • Using a Plugin
  • Creating Your Own Plugins
  • Plugin Controllers
  • Plugin Models
  • Plugin Views
    • Overriding plugin views from inside your application
  • Plugin assets
    • Linking to assets in plugins
  • Components, Helpers and Behaviors
  • Expand Your Plugin
  • Plugin Tips
• Console and Shells
  • The CakePHP console
    • Adding cake to your system path
  • Creating a shell
    • Using Models in your shells
  • Shell tasks
    • Loading tasks on the fly with TaskCollection
  • Invoking other shells from your shell
  • Console output levels
  • Styling output
    • Turning off colouring
  • Configuring options and generating help
    • Configuring an option parser with the fluent interface
    • Adding arguments
    • Validating arguments
    • Adding Options
    • Validating options
    • Using boolean options
    • Adding subcommands
    • Building a ConsoleOptionParser from an array
    • Getting help from shells
    • Getting help as XML
  • Shell API
  • More topics
    • Running Shells as cronjobs
    • Code Generation with Bake
    • Schema management and migrations
    • I18N shell
    • ACL Shell
    • Testsuite shell
    • Upgrade shell
• Development
  • Configuration
    • Database Configuration
    • Additional Class Paths
    • Core Configuration
    • Configure Class
    • Loading configuration files
    • Creating your own Configuration readers
    • Inflection Configuration
    • Bootstrapping CakePHP
  • Routing
    • Routes Configuration
    • Default Routing
    • Connecting Routes
    • Passed arguments
    • Named parameters
    • Reverse routing
    • Redirect routing
    • Disabling the default routes
    • Custom Route classes
    • Router API
  • Sessions
    • Session Configuration
    • Built-in Session handlers & configuration
    • Setting ini directives
    • Creating a custom session handler
    • Reading & writing session data
  • Exceptions
    • Exception configuration
    • Exception classes
    • Creating your own application exceptions
    • Extending and implementing your own Exception handlers
    • Create your own Exception handler with Exception.handler
    • Using AppController::appError();
    • Using a custom renderer with Exception.renderer to handle application exceptions
    • Built in Exceptions for CakePHP
    • Using HTTP exceptions in your controllers
  • Error Handling
    • Error configuration
    • Creating your own error handler
  • Debugging
    • Basic Debugging
    • Debugger Class
    • Using the Debugger Class
    • Using Logging to debug
    • Debug Kit
  • Testing
    • Installing PHPUnit
    • Test Database Setup
    • Checking the Test Setup
    • Test Case Conventions
    • Creating Your First Test Case
    • Running Tests
    • Test Case Lifecycle Callbacks
    • Fixtures
    • Testing Models
    • Testing Controllers
    • Testing Components
    • Testing Helpers
    • Creating Test Suites
    • Creating Tests for Plugins
    • Integration with Jenkins
  • REST
    • The Simple Setup
    • Accepting input in other formats
    • Modifing the default REST routes
    • Custom REST Routing
  • Vendor packages
    • Vendor assets
• Deployment
  • Set document root
  • Update core.php
  • Multiple CakePHP applications using the same core
• Tutorials & Examples
  • Blog Tutorial
    • Getting Cake
    • Creating the Blog Database
    • Cake Database 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 Posts
    • Routes
    • Conclusion
  • Simple Authentication and Authorization Application
    • Creating all users’ related code
    • Authentication (login and logout)
    • Authorization (who’s allowed to access what)
  • Simple Acl controlled Application
    • Preparing our Application
    • Preparing to Add Auth
    • Initialize the Db Acl tables
    • Acts As a Requester
    • Creating ACOs (Access Control Objects)
  • Simple Acl controlled Application - part 2
    • An Automated tool for creating ACOs
    • Setting up permissions
    • Logging in
    • Logout
    • All done
• Contributing
  • Documentation
    • Translations
    • Documentation formatting guide
  • Tickets
    • Reporting bugs
    • Reporting security issues
  • Code
    • Initial setup
    • Working on a patch
    • Submitting a pull request
  • Coding Standards
    • Adding new features
    • Indentation
    • Control Structures
    • Function Calls
    • Method definition
    • Commenting code
    • Including files
    • PHP tags
    • Naming convention
• Appendices
  • 2.0 Migration Guide
    • 2.0 Migration Guide
    • New Features in CakePHP 2.0
    • PHPUnit Migration Hints
  • 2.1 Migration Guide
    • 2.1 Migration Guide
    • New Features in CakePHP 2.1
  • Migration from 1.2 to 1.3
    • Migrating from CakePHP 1.2 to 1.3
    • New features in CakePHP 1.3
  • General Information
    • CakePHP Development Process
    • Glossary

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page
• Glossary