Re: Frustrated with CakePHP

Sat, 08 Jul 2006 12:27:10 -0700

In my endeavors with CakePHP I can definitely see documentation improving.

The documentation is still lacking from where it needs to be but the best thing you can do is to submit a ticket on http://trac.cakephp.org to either have documentation written or updated.

Open source is a community effort and making requests for what you need is part of that effort.  Chances are if you need something, someone else will need it too, and the developers and maintainers can address the issue.

A while back I requested some more information on plugins since the manual page was blank.  I submitted a track ticket.  Someone was nice enough to write a little section on plugins.

You can also have a lot of questions answered here or on IRC.

Part of the problem is that CakePHP has been changing (for the better).  v1.0 wasn't released that long ago and v1.2 should be released in a few weeks (according to IRC logs).  1.2 addresses a lot of issues and requests that the community brought up, and the documentation should follow.

Everyone can help make CakePHP better, whether you are an inexperienced baker or PHPNut.

On 7/8/06, ShepherdWeb < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I chose CakePHP after extensive research and trying out a couple of
other frameworks.  The biggest obstacle I've found to accomplishing
anything in CakePHP is incomplete documentation.

When I first got here I read the Manual, went through the blog
tutorial, and tried some things out from the manual.  Things couldn't
have been better.  Now, as I try to dig in and build a real-world
application I'm finding that the documentation simply doesn't exist.
The API is helpful.  However, as a newbie to MVC in general, I have
bigger hurdles.  I need examples.  I dug through the CakeForge snippets
and the WIKI tutorials, but found most of those examples are also
either incomplete or underdocumented as well.

I am frustrated with this.  I am a fairly experienced php and ASP.NET
developer.  Programming is not new to me.  What am I missing?




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