CakePHP is a rapid development framework for PHP which uses commonly known design patterns like Active Record, Association Data Mapping, Front Controller and MVC. Our primary goal is to provide a structured framework that enables PHP users at all levels to rapidly develop robust web applications, without any loss to flexibility.

CakePHP - The rapid development PHP framework

Cookbook - THE Cake user documentation; start learning here!

Plugins - A repository of extensions to the framework

The Bakery - Tips, tutorials and articles

API - A reference to Cake's classes

CakePHP TV - Screen casts from events and video tutorials

The Cake Software Foundation - promoting development related to CakePHP

Our Google Group - community mailing list and forum

#cakephp on irc.freenode.net - Come chat with us, we have cake.

Q & A - Ask questions here, all questions welcome

Lighthouse - Got issues? Please tell us!

This git repository helps you get up and running quickly w/ a CakePHP installation on OpenShift. The backend database is MySQL and the database name is the same as your application name (using $_ENV['OPENSHIFT_APP_NAME']). You can call your application by whatever name you want (the name of the database will always match the application).

Create an account at http://openshift.redhat.com/

Create a php-5.3 application (you can call your application whatever you want)

rhc app create -a cake -t php-5.3

Add MySQL support to your application

rhc cartridge add -a cake -c mysql-5.1

Add this upstream CakePHP repo

cd cake
git remote add upstream -m master git://github.com/openshift/cakephp-example.git
git pull -s recursive -X theirs upstream master
# note that the git pull above can be used later to pull updates to CakePHP

Then push the repo upstream

git push

That's it, you can now checkout your application at (default admin account is admin/admin):

http://cake-$yournamespace.rhcloud.com

NOTES:

GIT_ROOT/.openshift/action_hooks/deploy: This script is executed with every 'git push'. Feel free to modify this script to learn how to use it to your advantage. By default, this script will create the database tables that this example uses.

If you need to modify the schema, you could create a file 
GIT_ROOT/.openshift/action_hooks/alter.sql and then use
GIT_ROOT/.openshift/action_hooks/deploy to execute that script (make sure to
back up your application + database w/ 'rhc app snapshot save'first :) )

CakePHP Security: If you're doing more than just 'playing' be sure to edit app/config/core.php and modify Security.salt and Security.cipherSeed.

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