Comments on: Learning CakePHP http://edivad.wordpress.com/2007/04/06/learning-cakephp/ Tech Travels Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:36:03 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Flipflops.org » Blog Archive » Reflections on learning CakePHP http://edivad.wordpress.com/2007/04/06/learning-cakephp/#comment-101 Flipflops.org » Blog Archive » Reflections on learning CakePHP Fri, 18 May 2007 09:38:13 +0000 http://edivad.wordpress.com/2007/04/06/learning-cakephp/#comment-101 [...] wrote this as a response to a post on this blog - it has a lot of useful links and it also got me [...] [...] wrote this as a response to a post on this blog – it has a lot of useful links and it also got me [...]

]]> By: John http://edivad.wordpress.com/2007/04/06/learning-cakephp/#comment-100 John Fri, 18 May 2007 09:30:30 +0000 http://edivad.wordpress.com/2007/04/06/learning-cakephp/#comment-100 I've been a full time PHP developer for 3 years now (ASP prior to that) - over the past few months I've been learning and writing a couple of sites in Cake. MVC is quite a different way of working to the way most PHP things seem to have been built (and the way I have built my projects) - but when you persevere and everything falls into place you don't want to go back. I find myself constantly checking to see if the work I've done so far in Cake is up to the point where I can stop using our current CMS framework at work and move to a Cake based system - unfortunately it isn't quite there - but it will be soo, and I can't wait. Personally the hardest thing I have found is the transition to getting query results as quite complex arrays rather than the simple flat results that you get from mysql_fetch_array. The one thing that I have found invaluble (when dealing with multi table relationships) as an aid is to simply pr() the variable holding my results array into the view I'm working on so I can see the paths I need to follow to the data I want. I’ve been a full time PHP developer for 3 years now (ASP prior to that) – over the past few months I’ve been learning and writing a couple of sites in Cake.

MVC is quite a different way of working to the way most PHP things seem to have been built (and the way I have built my projects) – but when you persevere and everything falls into place you don’t want to go back.

I find myself constantly checking to see if the work I’ve done so far in Cake is up to the point where I can stop using our current CMS framework at work and move to a Cake based system – unfortunately it isn’t quite there – but it will be soo, and I can’t wait.

Personally the hardest thing I have found is the transition to getting query results as quite complex arrays rather than the simple flat results that you get from mysql_fetch_array.

The one thing that I have found invaluble (when dealing with multi table relationships) as an aid is to simply pr() the variable holding my results array into the view I’m working on so I can see the paths I need to follow to the data I want.

]]> By: Tengku Zahasman http://edivad.wordpress.com/2007/04/06/learning-cakephp/#comment-69 Tengku Zahasman Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:36:28 +0000 http://edivad.wordpress.com/2007/04/06/learning-cakephp/#comment-69 Cool.. I've read the "Cook up web sites fast with CakePHP" tutorial series (and it has helped me a lot in familiarising myself with this framework).. but I was not aware of the wiki tutorial. Sounds like fun. Thanks for sharing :D Cool.. I’ve read the “Cook up web sites fast with CakePHP” tutorial series (and it has helped me a lot in familiarising myself with this framework).. but I was not aware of the wiki tutorial. Sounds like fun. Thanks for sharing :D

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