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CakePHP: MVC

CakePHP is a powerful, semi-autonomous framework intended for rapid application development, favoring convention over configuration. What this means is there are many parts of CakePHP that make some assumptions and then move on. This includes areas such as ORM and view generation, where many of the decisions about how data should be handled and interfaces should be rendered are made for you before you open up your code editor.

Goals

  • We need to understand how CakePHP’s ORM system works so that we can create and use the models our sample application needs.
  • We need to create the views and controllers, which talk to these ...

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