CakePHP is one of the best PHP MVC framework which is purely inspired by Ruby on Rails. I worked on ROR for many years. So I know CakePHP has very similar ROR standards. Here In this article I will show you about CakePHP installation on linux box in very detailed information. I created the very basic blog application using CakePHP and It is free for download.
Cakephp installation and blog tutorial step by step
I am using the linux box for installation following commands will be useful for any linux installation. You can use the any linux OS like (Ubuntu, Fedora, Redhat, centos, etc… )
#pear channel-discover pear.cakephp.org
#pear remote-list -c cakephp
#pear install cakephp/CakePHP
Go to folder where you want to create the project
#cd /var/www/html/
Create the project using following command
#cake bake project cakeblog
{
"name": "cakeblog",
"repositories": [
{
"type": "pear",
"url": "http://pear.cakephp.org"
}
],
"require": {
"pear-cakephp/cakephp": ">=2.4.0"
},
"config": {
"vendor-dir": "Vendor/"
}
}
#cd cakeblog
#chown purab:purab -R cakeblog
#chown apache:apache -R cakeblog/tmp
Download debug_kit
https://github.com/cakephp/debug_kit
Add into the Plugin Dir
Download commposer
http://getcomposer.org/download/
using following command and console:
#curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
Create the composer.json file in cakeblog folder and add following lines in that file
After that execute the following command
#php composer.phar install
Open the webroot/index.php file and add the following lines at line no 82.
define( 'CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH', ROOT . DS . APP_DIR . '/Vendor/pear-pear.cakephp.org/CakePHP' );
You can download my Blog code from Following Link.
[sociallocker]https://github.com/purab/cakeblog[/sociallocker]
Reference Used:
http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/getting-started.html#blog-tutorial
http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/installation/advanced-installation.html
