CakePHP books
Just noticed that the first chapters of the upcoming book “CakePHP in Action” by Duane O’Brien are now available in the Early Access Program of Manning.
There are also at least two other books under way: “Beginning CakePHP: From Novice to Professional” by David Golding, and “CakePHP - Das Praxisbuch” (in German) by Timo Derstappen.
All those books are scheduled for the second half of this year, so it is still a bit until they are released…
(if you understand Japanese you may have a look at amazon.co.jp, as there are already two CakePHP books available in Japanese)
Update (2008-04-08): There is another German CakePHP book coming with the title “Webentwicklung mit CakePHP.
Thanks for the information.
[...] Cakebaker released information today that revelaed three books on CakePHP that are to be released in second half of the year. [...]
It looks like 5 books in japanese from the search I did. Why are they so ahead of the curve? Crazy japanese - maybe i should learn japanese as a second language, heh.
Hello. Thank you for introducing our book (http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/switch-language/product/4839924317/ref=dp_change_lang/249-9399445-3453930?ie=UTF8&language=en%5FJP) :-).
Here Japan, a birthplace of the Ruby language, so many people know the advantages of the Rails development. So naturally, PHPers in Japan are interested in CakePHP, too. Last year, we wrote a guide book using 1.1. I sent it to gwoo. Two books are about CakePHP. And another two books are introducing Zend Framework, symfony, and CakePHP. And there are so many articles about CakePHP in the IT magazines…..
Great to know that the book scene has now changed for the good… old timers would know what I am talking about ;)
Great to see Cake catching on more and more.
I’d love to buy one of them, however, as I’m using the SVN for my personal projects so I can report bugs, a book would get outdated pretty quick for me.
There’s a book about PHP frameworks (CakePHP,Zend, Symfony) in portuguese:
http://www.novateceditora.com.br/livros/frameworks/
@all: Thanks for your comments!
@Marc: One of the books in the results, CakePHP Recipes, is the book that was cancelled around a year ago, and one is David Golding’s book.
@sdozono: Cool to hear that CakePHP is quite popular in Japan, I wasn’t aware of that.
@Terr: Yes, that’s a general problem of books about projects which evolve rapidly. If the book comes to the shelves, it is already outdated (at least partially)…
@Elton: Thanks for mentioning the Portuguese book!
Hey,
Thanks, even if we don t have any book in French :/
We should buy an english one
Does this book cover version 1.1 or 1.2? I’m assuming the former since 1.2 is still in beta, but I didn’t see anything that states definitively.
@Michael: As CakePHP becomes more popular, maybe a French baker will decide to write such a book, who knows.
@Matt: Which book do you mean?
Waiting a book about cakePHP, in my oppion cakePHP is the best framework in PHP but only the documentation isnot enough, need a book covers general coding principles of this framework with code samples…
@Umut: There are books coming, but first there has to be release of a stable version of CakePHP 1.2…