1. Is there a formal thing called a "page template" and this is
meant to invoke its known properties? Also, is "action" a defined
formal term for something?
I think you are trying too hard. You seem to approach programming as
one would approach mathematics - wanting everything to be formally
defined. CakePHP is a framework for Rapid Application Development -
which works much more on intuition and tacit understanding than formal
definition.
Relax. Read what you can on MVC
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-view-controller). Go through the
Cake Blog tutorial. It's here :
http://manual.cakephp.org/appendix/blog_tutorial . It tells you exactly
what to do. At first, you might not understand _why_ things work the
way they do. That's fine -- take it easy. Just do it, and see it
running. Then modifiy it. Adapt it. This way you will slowly build your
intuition. Next step, write your own small application based on the
intuitive understanding you gained. Again, it does not matter if you
don't exactly understand why things work the way they do. When you get
to something you don't know how to do, check this group's archive ;
likelyhood is it's been answered before. If you're not quite sure how a
function behave, read it's code. That's the best way to learn (the code
of CakePHP is the closest thing you'll get to a formal defintion - it's
well written and very readable).
Before you know it, you will have build a intuitive understanding of
CakePHP, and you will know why and how things work. And this
understanding will be usefull beyond CakePHP - it will apply to MVC web
frameworks in general.
If you can't work that way, then maybe Rapid Application Development is
not for you !
"Take it easy baby,
Take it as it comes"
Anselm
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