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CakePHP components

CakePHP components

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CakePHP components

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- [Instructor] CakePHP has a host of classes and constructs that can be used within its framework. In this movie, we're going to take a look at what's offered, and the set of tools you have at your disposal when using CakePHP. The first thing to look at are the core classes that are available in CakePHP. We obviously have our key elements for creating controllers, for working with databases, as well as handling the view. Our MVC classes. But, in addition, we have a lot of other classes that can handle things like authorization, caching, error-handling, interacting with the file system, form validation, sending emails, working over the network, and a host of other different things. There are a number of utility, or helper, classes available that we can use for managing different things like formatting text, working with hashes, things like that. If you look in the CakePHP book, you can find a lot of information about some important tools that are built into CakePHP. One of the cool new…

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