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06.21.13
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Cake PHP tutorial

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Installation

In this tutorial we are all going to to know how to install CakePHP .CakePHP is fast and easy to install. The minimum requirements are a webserver and a copy of Cake, that’s all!!!

 

 

Requirements

  • HTTP Server. For example: Apache. mod_rewrite is preferred, but by no means required.
  • PHP 5.2.8 or greater.

Technically a database engine isn’t required, but we imagine that most applications will utilize one. CakePHP supports a variety of database storage engines:

  • MySQL (4 or greater)
  • PostgreSQL
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • SQLite

Downloading CakePHP

There are two main ways to get a fresh copy of CakePHP. You can either download an archive copy (zip/tar.gz/tar.bz2) from the main website, or check out the code from the git repository.

To download the latest major release of CakePHP. Visit the main website http://cakephp.org and follow the “Download Now” link.

All current releases of CakePHP are hosted on Github. Github houses both CakePHP itself as well as many other plugins for CakePHP. The CakePHP releases are available at Github tags.

Alternatively you can get fresh off the press code, with all the bug-fixes and up to the minute enhancements. These can be accessed from github by cloning the Github repository:

git clone git://github.com/cakephp/cakephp.git

 

Permissions

CakePHP uses the app/tmp directory for a number of different operations. Model descriptions, cached views, and session information are just a few examples.

As such, make sure the directory app/tmp and all its subdirectories in your cake installation are writable by the web server user.

Setup

Setting up CakePHP can be as simple as slapping it in your web server’s document root, or as complex and flexible as you wish. This section will cover the three main installation types for CakePHP: development, production, and advanced.

  • Development: easy to get going, URLs for the application include the CakePHP installation directory name, and less secure.
  • Production: Requires the ability to configure the web server’s document root, clean URLs, very secure.
  • Advanced: With some configuration, allows you to place key CakePHP directories in different parts of the filesystem, possibly sharing a single CakePHP core library folder amongst many CakePHP applications.

Development

A development installation is the fastest method to setup Cake. This example will help you install a CakePHP application and make it available at http://www.example.com/cake_2_0/. We assume for the purposes of this example that your document root is set to /var/www/html.

Unpack the contents of the Cake archive into /var/www/html. You now have a folder in your document root named after the release you’ve downloaded (e.g. cake_2.0.0). Rename this folder to cake_2_0. Your development setup will look like this on the file system:

/var/www/html/
    cake_2_0/
        app/
        lib/
        plugins/
        vendors/
        .htaccess
        index.php
        README

Using one CakePHP checkout for multiple applications

If you are developing a number of applications, it often makes sense to have them share the same CakePHP core checkout. There are a few ways in which you can accomplish this. Often the easiest is to use PHP’s include_path. To start off, clone CakePHP into a directory. For this example, we’ll use ~/projects:

git clone git://github.com/cakephp/cakephp.git ~/projects/cakephp

 

This will clone CakePHP into your ~/projects directory. If you don’t want to use git, you can download a zipball and the remaining steps will be the same. Next you’ll have to locate and modify your php.ini. On *nix systems this is often in /etc/php.ini, but using php -i and looking for ‘Loaded Configuration File’. Once you’ve found the correct ini file, modify the include_path configuration to include ~/projects/cakephp/lib. An example would look like:

include_path = .:/home/mark/projects/cakephp/lib:/usr/local/php/lib/php

After restarting your webserver, you should see the changes reflected in phpinfo().

Note

If you are on windows, separate include paths with ; instead of :

Having finished setting up your include_path your applications should be able to find CakePHP automatically.

In my next tutorial you will came to know how to install CakePHP by production —à