David above identified the method that worked for me. Liberal echo pr($variable) in the models/controller/views was invaluable to me to work out what was getting passed by who and to where.
Using Bake to build your scaffolding. You can learn an awful lot by looking at the baked code. Blogs & this group. Cake 1.2 is cutting edge and the documentation is always a step or two behind. Keep an eye open for CakePHP related blogs and posts as there are loads of posted code samples. You can bet, whatever your current problem is, someone, somewhere will have posted a solution. Read the Source: Digging into the source under the hood of cake will give you an insight into what cake is expecting and producing. It took me a good couple of weeks to 'get' CakePHP. Once that moment of enlightenment comes your productivity will skyrocket :-) Keep at it, immerse yourself in the Cake culture, read everything! On Jan 21, 4:15 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think the most efficient way is to pick a project that interests > you, keep the manual handy and start developing. If it interests you, > you'll stick with it. > > Dave > > On Jan 21, 8:39 am, Baz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >http://tempdocs.cakephp.org/ > > > On Jan 21, 2008 8:54 AM, clemos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi Ben > > > > I think the very first step is to follow the "15 min Cake Blog Tutorial" > > >http://manual.cakephp.org/appendix/blog_tutorial > > > It allows you to setup a cake install, and build a very simple blog > > > engine with it, thus demonstrating Cake's basic concepts. > > > Once you're done with it, check out the rest of the manual to learn > > > more about all these concepts and other Cake features. > > > All this should be a good start... > > > > ++++++ > > > Clément > > > > On Jan 21, 2008 3:04 PM, Oxygen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I've been playing around with CakePHP for a little over 24 hours in > > > > total now and I've just given up on the IBM "Cook up Web sites fast" > > > > tutorial; it was hopelessly buggy and inconsistent. I don't want to > > > > rant, and obviously some parts are out of date, but for this tutorial > > > > to be one of the suggested ways of getting started seems a little > > > > wrong. > > > > > I have a bad habit of sticking with a tutorial once I've started, I > > > > should probably have given up sooner, but I can't be alone in > > > > wondering what the most efficient way to get into CakePHP is. > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Ben Heley --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
