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If you’ve been using PHP for sometime now and would like to start using a web framework, you’ll want to try CakePHP, which is an open source rapid development web framework built on PHP.
PHP experts Kai Chan and John Omokore guide you through a variety of practical CakePHP applications. You will work on projects such as a video gallery, unit testing application, an e–commerce app, a blog site, and much more. Practical CakePHP Projects covers the key architectural concepts as well as including mini projects that you can use to enhance your own applications.

- A friendly introduction for any web programmer looking to choose a PHP framework
- Real–world projects based on current and future trends
- Practical CakePHP techniques that you can use right away

What you’ll learn

- Painlessly create a secure and dynamic web site with CakePHP and MySQL.
- Discover how CakePHP can be used in high–level and demanding applications using CakePHP built–in components as well as methods such as Smarty, caching, and unit testing.
- See how CakePHP integrates with technologies such as Ajax and web services.
- Integrate your own components into CakePHP’s framework.
- Apply CakePHP to mainstream technologies such as Google Video, blogging, mashups, and e–commerce.
- Work through the few pitfalls of some of the CakePHP framework, for example, Access Control Lists.