I've built the blog, the ACL controlled version and a few other apps in
Cake already. The book and API docs are helpful to a point. The point
when they stop being helpful is when you try to figure out how to build
multi step logic into an app. Which is where I am.
I've already tried the documentation and found it lacking. It's great
at demoing some of the fundamentals, but crap at showing how to take
Cake beyond simple single-interaction actions into useful real world
applications. For example, this page of the Book:
http://book.cakephp.org/view/898/A-Typical-CakePHP-Request
Manages to tell me how the logic flow of a Cake Request goes, without
giving me any useful direction to go in.
Mike
On 6/9/2010 12:11 AM, Ed Propsner wrote:
It doesn't seem like the "blog" tutorial is really your thing but have
you tried it? All the fundamentals are there including functions and
how they relate to views, as well as passing data back and forth
between MVC. It really is the best place to start and any additional
info can be found in the book or the API.
http://book.cakephp.org/view/1528/Blog
http://book.cakephp.org/view/875/x1-3-Collection
http://api13.cakephp.org/
Once you get the basics down most people on this list are really great
about getting you pointed in the right direction once you start making
a mess of things 8-)
- Ed
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Mike A <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I'm new to Cake and the MVC style of programming. I've had no luck
finding a guide to best practices for programming this way, or even
guides to building anything much more complicated than a blog. I've
been tasked with rebuilding an ancient intranet app, and I'm trying to
use Cake to do it. I could use a bit of advice on the best way to go
about this.
Our current app is written in Fusebox 3. It's designed to track our
staff vacation and sick days works as follows:
1. user selects the employee who is taking time off
2. script pulls that employees data from database A
3. user is given a web form with the employees data filled in
4. user selects the dates of leave and if it is charged to vacation
and sick time, then submits the form
5. script records info to database B
6. web page displays the employees updated sick and vacation totals
In the existing Fusebox app, I can chain a series of php pages
together (actions, views and queries) to do all the work. Data is
passed from page to page via POST variables.
Can someone give me advice on how to do all this in Cake? I'm trying
to figure out the best way. Should I create a function in the
controller for each step? How can I pass that data back and forth?
Thanks in advance for any advice you can give.
Mike
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