Kudos for ralph who elequently illustrated my *only *problem with CakePHP.
Cake is a top bit of coding. Seems to do so much of what I want, but the practical documentation is lacking. Code examples are crutial. Even generic ones. Specific ones are even better. No-one comes to Cake without a good understanding of PHP. What we need are concrete examples of how common stuff is done. From there we can piece together the intricacies. IMHO, the best introduction to cake was done on the IBM site: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/os-dw-os-php-cake1.html They showed, from first priciples how to put together a cake app. That's what the documentation needs. API documention is fine for CakePHP guru's, but it was only after reading the IBM stuff I *got* it. I learned more from lesson 1, than I did from anything on the Cake site. This is defintely not a winge. I'm loving Cake. If my proffessional deadlines were'nt so tight in my projects I'd be contributing documentation about what I've got it to do right now. Cake *feels* right to me, and I know this is the direction my own code should be going. As it stands, if a commercial project comes up that I think: 'This would be perfect for a Cake'. I have to pass and go back to what I know I can get working. If you want Cake to be defacto, you are going to have to publish basic tutorials on: Authentication. Showing how to develop a system where users register, sign in, sign out, have access to certain pages, how user_id's are used to filter data, etc. How a page is put together: Sounds simple I know, but I'm still struggling to see how a cake app would build a comercial (not some toy blog you couldn't charge for) site. Real websites are much more than a common header, footer and one action. *Show* how components and elements are brought together to build a page. Gah, feels like a rant - but I'm not ranting ;-) Just frustrated when I can feel the potential, but the practicallity is missing some important steps. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
