Articles Tagged with console
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Garrett Woodworth - CakePHP console basics
Written on 2008-12-03 11:58:00 in CakeFest, CakePHP,
Viewed 6068 times 0 CommentsGarret's talk focused on getting command line tools setup. Before getting started on that he covered how to setup a virtual host for a cake project. Once he got into the cake shell, he covered the basic core shells and how to call shells. Garret then used bake to create a new project and a database config file. Using cake bake project and cake bake db_config. Up next was creating a schema file with cake schema generate. The schema file was populated with a few tables to store some information about restaurants. A question was raised about adding and removing columns. Garret demonstrated that as well. Baking models controllers and views was up next. Using the previously created restaurants table, garret walked through baking a model, controller, and some views. At first a scaffold was used but the views were made co... -
Garret Woodworth - Advanced console
Written on 2008-12-05 09:15:00 in CakeFest, CakePHP,
Viewed 7434 times 0 CommentsSince we got through bake on the last talk, we are going to look at some advanced usage of bake and other consoles. The interactive console was demonstrated. With the interactive console, you can examine the routes, interact with models. Following the console demonstration, Garrett demonstrated creation of a custom shell. Building on a previous example application, garret started building a shell to generate a menu. This covered creating methods in your shell, using in() and out() as well as how to access args and params. A demo of Cakebot was next. Cakebot is the IRC bot used in #cakephp, Cakebot was also written as a CakePHP shell.
