Cook up websites fast with CakePHP, part 2
On IBM’s developerWorks the second part (requires a free IBM id) of the series “Cook up websites fast with CakePHP” has been published. It covers scaffolding, the bake script and ACL:
This tutorial shows you how to jumpstart your CakePHP application using scaffolding and Bake. You will also learn the ins and outs of using CakePHP’s Access Control Lists (ACLs). You’ll get a look at what scaffolding is and what it provides. Then you’ll learn how to use Bake to generate the code for a scaffold, letting you tweak it as you go. Finally, you will learn about ACLs: what they are, how to create them, and how to use them in your application.
Like the first part it is a comprehensive and good tutorial. You can also download it as a PDF (without registration).
I don’t have much time right now but i’ve just browsed it a bit and wow! what a resource! pretty in-depth and on first look, and it looks like it contains great explications about the very-hard-to-understand/find-good-resources-about subject ACL.
Dieter
This is great! I love the attention cakephp is getting :)
The tutorial is out of date. For example in part 2, acl.php does not behave as described. Has anyone got this working in cake 1.1.11.4064?
@Luke: Well, the tutorial was written with CakePHP 1.1.8, so it is possible that some details have changed since then. But in general it should still be valid. What is the problem?
basically, acl.php seems to have changed so that you need to add an extra parameter to get it to work, and using ‘null’ doesn’t work. I figured it out in the end. It might also be worth looking at the acl_admin project instead of using acl.php.
I have some troubles with baking in this tutorial (or with cakephp) - I get a fatal error: call to undefined function mysql_connect() in … dbo_mysql.php on line 102
I’m new to cakephp - could anyone suggest what is wrong?
@Eugene: Sounds like the MySQL extension is not loaded in the command line version of PHP. Afaik you have to load it in the php.ini used for the cli version of PHP.
HTH
@HTH: Thanks. Cakephp seems to be what I was looking for! Is there a nice forum where I can ask people some questions about it?
@Eugene: There is no forum, but you can ask your questions in the CakePHP google group (http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php) or in the IRC channel #cakephp on freenode.net
@Luke Mackenzie why didn’t you tell that extra parameter in your post :(
ok i found it’s just ”