Comments on: Book review: Practical CakePHP Projects

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:00:46 +0000

@jamc: I'm not sure I understand your comment correctly (I had to use Google translate as I don't speak Spanish), but right now I don't recommend any CakePHP book as all (English) books are outdated... Probably the best thing you can do to learn CakePHp is to use the API and the cookbook, and to ask questions in the IRC channel or the Google group (there is also a Spanish group)

By: jamc

jamc — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:15:52 +0000

Si tienes razón este libro nunca fue pensado en el lector. desde el primer ejemplo de e-commerce no se lo puede seguir.

Aparte que como ya lo dijiste el tine mucho código “incorrecto”. ahora lo estoy leyendo pero me encuentro fustrado ya que pense que estaba mejor y lo peor es que no hay otro libro parecido.. Del otro lada cakePHP application development de Packt. Pub. me gusto mucho…

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:22:14 +0000

@Watts: Yes, such things are annoying…

By: Watts

Watts — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:39:29 +0000

I picked up this book, too, and I’m terribly annoyed with it. In addition to the problems you mentioned, the technical editing in it is terrible. In Chapter 2, for instance, it tells you about the ‘add_or_edit’ element for adding/editing posts, but it doesn’t actually give you that element. Listing 2-6 is for an add view that… doesn’t use the add_or_edit element. If you follow along with the text, you won’t be able to create the sample application.

There are other typos I’ve caught, including in code. I bought the book in the hopes that it would teach me stuff I didn’t know — but I can recognize such grievous errors in the stuff I do know that I’m just not sure I can trust it to get things more complex right.

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:27:49 +0000

@Martin: ;-)

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By: Martin Westin

Martin Westin — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:14:00 +0000

page 7:
“The controller should contain most of the business logic”

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By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:03:02 +0000

@Mike: Thanks for your comment!

Well, what I’m trying to say is that the authors usually show one example of how something could be used. Without providing much background about the used feature (e.g. in the section about i18n the i18n shell script is never mentioned). The focus is often on making the example applications work, and not on teaching the reader how to use those feature in his own applications.

It’s probably best to look at this book at a local bookshop to see whether it contains what you are looking for…

By: Mike B

Mike B — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:38:33 +0000

I was considering picking this up, but now I may re-consider. It sounds like you are trying to say that the authors provide solutions to a lot of common problems but fail at providing background or perspective to the problems themselves.

Or does it cover a lot of examples but just not the ones that are common amongst cake devs?