July Meeting: CakePHP, a PHP Framework

Main Topic: CakePHP, Rapid Developement Framework - Garrett J. Woodworth

CakePHP is about rapid development. Therefore, Garrett Woodworth will build a sample application as a demonstration of its ease of use.

During our meeting, Garrett will lead us through:

- Installing CakePHP

- The CakePHP structure- directories explained

- Models, Views, Controllers

- Starting with bake.php - using the command line tools

- Prototype an Application - scaffolding what you need

- Customize the Application - add a nice layout and enhance the views

- Extending the Application - we probably need some helpers and
components

- Conclusion / Q & A

Garrett J. Woodworth aka gwoo has been the Project Manager for CakePHP since August 2005, just after the release of 0.9.1_dev. Now CakePHP has passed 1.0 stable and has grown into one of the largest PHP communities. The CakePHP community has over 1900 members, a solid development and documentation team, and is supported by the Cake Software Foundation. Garrett is responsible for the CakeAMFPHP package, which links CakePHP with AMFPHP for Flash remoting goodness. Gwoo also produced several sample applications with CakePHP including a blog/photo gallery, a code-sharing bin, a Google Maps application, and a web based bake utility.

Garrett started developing PHP applications in 1999. He holds a JD, focused on intellectual property, and MBA in information systems from Fordham University.