Basic Configuration:<\/h2>\n
Step1:-<\/b> Before installing CakePHP we are needed to check some configuration in our server.<\/p>\n Step2:-<\/b> Extract zip file and change folder name with your desire project name. For example Step3:-<\/b> Move the Step4:-<\/b> Directory Permissions – The tmp and logs directories need to have write permissions. So, make these directories to be writable.<\/p>\n Step5:-<\/b> Creating Database – Create a database at the phpMyAdmin. For example Step6:-<\/b> Database Configuration: Step7:-<\/b> Run the application URL ( Before start to building a sample project, we should know about the Naming Conventions of CakePHP 3.x.<\/p>\n Controller Conventions – <\/b>Controller class names are plural, CamelCased, and end in Controller ( Model and Database Conventions – <\/b>Model class names are plural, CamelCased, and end in Table ( View Conventions – <\/b>The basic pattern of view template file is We are going to build a sample application using CakePHP 3.x. This sample application will fetch some posts from database and display those posts data and display those posts data at the browser.<\/p>\n Create a posts table:<\/b><\/p>\n Insert some posts data for testing purpose:<\/b><\/p>\n Creating Posts Controller:<\/b> Creating Posts Model:<\/b> Creating Posts Views:<\/b>\n
mbstring<\/code> and intl<\/code> extensions are enabled in PHP.<\/li>\npdo_mysql<\/code> enabled in PHP.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\ncakephp\/<\/code>.<\/p>\ncakephp\/<\/code> folder to the localhost server. Your directory setup would look like the following.<\/p>\n\n
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cakephp_db<\/code>.<\/p>\n
\n<\/span> Open the config\/app.php<\/code> file and replace the values in the Datasources.default<\/code> array with database details. The completed configuration array might be look like the following.<\/p>\n\n
'Datasources' <\/span>=> [
<\/span>'default' <\/span>=> [
<\/span>'className' <\/span>=> <\/span>'Cake\\Database\\Connection'<\/span>,
<\/span>'driver' <\/span>=> <\/span>'Cake\\Database\\Driver\\Mysql'<\/span>,
<\/span>'persistent' <\/span>=> <\/span>false<\/span>,
<\/span>'host' <\/span>=> <\/span>'localhost'<\/span>,
<\/span>'username' <\/span>=> <\/span>'root'<\/span>,
<\/span>'password' <\/span>=> <\/span>''<\/span>,
<\/span>'database' <\/span>=> <\/span>'cakephp_db'<\/span>,
<\/span>'encoding' <\/span>=> <\/span>'utf8'<\/span>,
<\/span>'timezone' <\/span>=> <\/span>'UTC'<\/span>,
<\/span>'cacheMetadata' <\/span>=> <\/span>true<\/span>,
<\/span>'quoteIdentifiers' <\/span>=> <\/span>false<\/span>,
],
]<\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nhttp:\/\/localhost\/cakephp\/<\/code>) at the browser, screen would look like the below.<\/p>\n![\"cakephp-installation-configuration-tutorial-by-codexworld\"](\"https:\/\/www.codexworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/cakephp-installation-configuration-tutorial-by-codexworld.png\")
<\/div>\nCakePHP 3.x Naming Conventions:<\/h2>\n
PostsController<\/code>, LatestPostsController<\/code> etc.).<\/p>\nPostsTable<\/code>). Database Table names corresponding to CakePHP models are plural and underscored (posts<\/code>).<\/p>\nsrc\/Template\/Controller\/underscored_function_name.ctp<\/code> (src\/Template\/Posts\/index.ctp<\/code>).<\/p>\nSample Application with CakePHP 3.x:<\/h2>\n
CREATE<\/span> TABLE<\/span> `posts<\/span>` (\r\n `id`<\/span> int<\/span>(11<\/span>) NOT NULL<\/span> AUTO_INCREMENT,\r\n `title`<\/span> varchar<\/span>(255<\/span>) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL<\/span>,\r\n `description`<\/span> text<\/span> COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL<\/span>,\r\n `created`<\/span> datetime NOT NULL<\/span>,\r\n `modified`<\/span> datetime NOT NULL<\/span>,\r\n `status`<\/span> tinyint<\/span>(1<\/span>) NOT NULL<\/span> DEFAULT '1'<\/span> COMMENT '1 = Active, 0 = Inactive'<\/span>,\r\n PRIMARY KEY<\/span> (`id`<\/span>)\r\n) ENGINE=<\/span>InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=<\/span>utf8 COLLATE=<\/span>utf8_unicode_ci;\r\n<\/pre>\nINSERT INTO<\/span> \r\n `cakephp_db`<\/span>.`posts`<\/span> (`id`<\/span>, `title`<\/span>, `description`<\/span>, `created`<\/span>, `modified`<\/span>, `status`<\/span>) \r\nVALUES<\/span> \r\n (NULL<\/span>, 'Distance between two addresses using Google Maps API and PHP'<\/span>, 'Calculate distance between two addresses........'<\/span>, NOW(), NOW(), '1'<\/span>), \r\n (NULL<\/span>, 'Ajax Pagination in CodeIgniter Framework'<\/span>, 'CodeIgniter have the pagination library by........'<\/span>, NOW(), NOW(), '1'<\/span>), \r\n (NULL<\/span>, 'Create a custom WordPress Plugin from scratch'<\/span>, 'WordPress is the most popular open source content management.......'<\/span>, NOW(), NOW(), '1'<\/span>), \r\n (NULL<\/span>, 'Drag and drop reorder images using jQuery, Ajax, PHP & MySQL'<\/span>, 'Today we will discuss about the most useful........'<\/span>, NOW(), NOW(), '1'<\/span>), \r\n (NULL<\/span>, 'Drupal 7 installation and setup tutorial for beginners'<\/span>, 'Drupal is a content management system which allows........'<\/span>, NOW(), NOW(), '1'<\/span>);\r\n<\/pre>\n
\nWe\u2019ll create a controller with the class name PostsController<\/code> and place this new controller in a file called PostsController.php<\/code> inside the src\/Controller<\/code> directory. Here’s what the Posts Controller is look like:<\/p>\n<?php
<\/span>\/\/ src\/Controller\/PostsController.php
<\/span>namespace <\/span>App<\/span>\\<\/span>Controller<\/span>;
class <\/span>PostsController <\/span>extends <\/span>AppController
<\/span>{
public function <\/span>index<\/span>()
{
<\/span>$posts <\/span>= <\/span>$this<\/span>-><\/span>Posts<\/span>-><\/span>find<\/span>(<\/span>'all'<\/span>);
<\/span>$this<\/span>-><\/span>set<\/span>(<\/span>compact<\/span>(<\/span>'posts'<\/span>));
}
}<\/span><\/span><\/pre>\nfind()<\/code> function is used for retrieve all the posts data. set()<\/code> function is used to pass the posts data to view. <\/p>\n
\nWe don’t need to create model for retrieve data from post table.<\/p>\n
\nCakePHP’s template files are stored into the src\/Template<\/code> directory. Into this directory we’ll have to create a folder named “posts” and create a index.ctp<\/code> file. Our view code would be look like the below:<\/p>\n<h1<\/span>>Blog Posts<\/h1<\/span>>\r\n<div<\/span> class<\/span>=\"row\"<\/span>>\r\n <?php if<\/span>(!<\/span>empty<\/span>($posts<\/span>)): foreach<\/span>($posts<\/span> as<\/span> $post<\/span>): ?><\/span>\r\n <div<\/span> class<\/span>=\"post-box\"<\/span>>\r\n <div<\/span> class<\/span>=\"post-content\"<\/span>>\r\n <div<\/span> class<\/span>=\"caption\"<\/span>>\r\n <h4<\/span>><a<\/span> href<\/span>=\"javascript:void(0);\"<\/span>><?php echo<\/span> $post<\/span>-><\/span>title; ?><\/span><\/a<\/span>><\/h4<\/span>>\r\n <p<\/span>><?php echo<\/span> $post<\/span>-><\/span>description; ?><\/span><\/p<\/span>>\r\n <\/div<\/span>>\r\n <\/div<\/span>>\r\n <\/div<\/span>>\r\n <?php endforeach<\/span>; else<\/span>: ?><\/span>\r\n <