Today we just released a new book on CakePHP, appropriately titled the CakePHP 2 Application Cookbook. Published by Packt Publishing (ISBN 978-1782160083), and also available on Amazon and Safari, in both printed and e-book formats, this title delivers over 60 tutorials aimed at providing you a nice bite into CakePHP, and getting you familiarized with common approaches and techniques when building applications using the framework. Each tutorial takes you from set up, to implementation, and then an in-depth overview of how it all works, so you can easily jump in on the topics that are most important to you.
For a while now the community had been asking for a book on the framework, and earlier this year some of us at CakeDC jumped on the opportunity to accept the challenge. As we didn't want to write a book which was just an echo of the documentation, we took the initiative to determine which issues were really most relevant to the community. We did this by collecting the most popular questions from support sites, such as Stack Overflow, which covered topics such as how to use certain features or perform common actions with the framework. We then ranked those in order of frequency, and proposed solutions for each one, putting together what we consider to be a comprehensive guide as to how to get the job done fast and done right.
While we did our best to approach each topic with a rapid and sensible solution, we were constantly aware of the possibility of the uneven level of technical knowledge each reader may have. So, we tried where possible to keep the examples inline with simple or reasonably understandable parameters, to reduce any additional knowledge which could be required for each tutorial. We hope no one feels too far out of their depth!
The process itself was somewhat new to us, especially with a serious and noteworthy publisher leading the effort, but we managed to make it through in around 2-3 months of late nights and ridiculous dedication, including various phases of review and corrections. That said, we did all of this while also juggling our professional work at the Cake Development Corporation, our personal lives, and in my case, also organizing CakeFest 2014, the annual CakePHP conference. It's something I would definitely recommend if you love to teach and share your knowledge, whatever topic that may be.
So, grab your copy of the book, in either printed or e-book format. We'll be donating 100% of the royalties from sales of the book to the Cake Software Foundation, so that everything you give goes straight to CakePHP, to help keep the project strong. That's how much we love this community!
We hope you take something away from the scenarios we take on, and hopefully enjoy working even more with the framework. As always, we're very active in the community, so if you have any feedback or suggestions, feel free to reach out to us.
Here's to many more years of delicious cake, it was never a lie!
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