Abhimanyu Grover (aka Max) has written an article about using the content management system Joomla together with CakePHP. If you are a Joomla user this article may be helpful for you.
Update 2007-02-14: Max pasted a link to an update of the “Joomla with CakePHP” article.
Update 2007-02-17: Mariano Iglesias informed me in the comments that the Jake project now has its own website: http://dev.sypad.com/projects/jake. You can also download Jake from http://cakeforge.org/projects/jake/.
Thanks man, I read your blog all the time…. really happy to see my link here….
Here’s the update project: http://www.gigapromoters.com/blog/2007/02/13/finally-a-practical-solution-joomla-with-cakephp-together-jake/
@Max: Thanks for the update :)
We’ve set up a home for Jake:
http://dev.sypad.com/projects/jake
The project is on CakeForge and is about to reach its beta release. The new version includes (among other things):
1. No modification is needed to Joomla, CakePHP or your application.
2. Jake is installed in Joomla as a component (Joomla provides an administrator interface to install components), so is a one click install.
3. Configuration is absolutely simple, and you can run *any* number of CakePHP applications using Jake.
4. Your CakePHP applications can now when they are being executed through Jake (and as such do things like use a different layout) and even talk about to Jake using Jake callbacks!
5. And much more…
So check back soon and update your links. I’ll be writing documentation this next couple of days, update source code and then release beta.
Jeez lots of mistakes on my last post :)
* When I said “your CakePHP applications can now when they are being executed through Jake” I ment “your CakePHP applications can now know when they are being executed through Jake”
* When I said “and even talk about to Jake” I ment “and even talk back to Jake”
:)
@Mariano: Thanks for the information, I updated this post. Good luck with your project!
Is there any update on this – Feb 2007 seems a long time ago for something to still stay stable.
@Daniel: No, I’m not aware of any updates. Your best bet is probably to look at the source and/or to contact the author of Jake.
Hope that helps!
Nice, I look forward to seeing all the goodies we can come up with using this combination. Thanks
@Elkana: Yeah, it is an interesting combination, though I am not sure whether it still works with the current CakePHP release as Jake has been released 2.5 years ago… Anyway, just give it a try :)
What about Cake and Joomla administration? Especially issue of authentication and authorization?
@STEFi: I’m sorry, but I don’t have an answer to your questions as I don’t use Joomla. Maybe you will have more luck in the CakePHP Google Group…