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Intro to CakePHP 3

Intro to CakePHP 3

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Intro to CakePHP 3

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- [Instructor] CakePHP is a full stack framework. Its aims are fast adoption and development speed. Specifically, writing as much functionality as possible with as little code as possible. It borrows a lot of concepts from Ruby on Rails, including the core concept of convention over configuration. CakePHP now has behind it a support and consulting company called CakeDC. So Cake was created in 2006 by a Polish developer who wanted to have something more like a Ruby on Rails architecture but for PHP developers. It's licensed under the MIT license so it's good for commercial use and it's currently at version 3.3 as of the recording of this movie. One of the things people really like about CakePHP is that it has the Bake command-line interface. This allows you to do a number of different tasks from the command-line. Additionally, CakePHP has scaffolding, which means you can plug a database in and build all the add, update, and delete code and then from there, you can use that to prototype…

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