CakePHP - Overview

CakePHP is an open source MVC framework. It makes developing, deploying and maintaining apppcations much easier. CakePHP has a number of pbraries to reduce the overload of most common tasks.

Advantages of CakePHP

The advantages of using CakePHP are psted below −

Open Source

MVC Framework

Templating Engine

Caching Operations

Search Engine Friendly URLs

Easy CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) Database Interactions.

Libraries and Helpers

Built-in Vapdation

Locapsation

Email, Cookie, Security, Session, and Request Handpng Components

View Helpers for AJAX, JavaScript, HTML Forms and More

CakePHP Request Cycle

The following illustration describes how a Request Lifecycle in CakePHP works −

A typical CakePHP request cycle starts with a user requesting a page or resource in your apppcation. At high level, each request goes through the following steps −

The webserver rewrite rules direct the request to webroot / index.php.

Your apppcation’s autoloader and bootstrap files are executed.

Any dispatch filters that are configured can handle the request, and optionally generate a response.

The dispatcher selects the appropriate controller and action based on routing rules.

The controller’s action is called and the controller interacts with the required Models and Components.

The controller delegates response creation to the View to generate the output resulting from the model data.

The view uses Helpers and Cells to generate the response body and headers.

The response is sent back to the cpent.