/default-cakephp-app

A starting point for a new CakePHP App

Primary LanguagePHP

Setup CakePHP App using Composer and Grunt

This repo is a starting point for a CakePHP app. Here’s what you get:

  • CakePHP
  • BoostCake for Bootstrap integration
  • Bootstrap
  • Font Awesome
  • jQuery
  • Underscore
  • Backbone
  • Grunt
    • jshint & uglify for JavaScript debugging, compression, and optimization
    • LESS with Source Maps (see Tuts+ Tutorial) for Chrome Dev Tools debugging and CSS compression
    • Image compression with smushit
    • Watch with PHP hinting

Prerequisites

Setup

Composer

  • composer install

    • You should now have an app and lib directory

CakePHP

Refer to http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/installation/advanced-installation.html

  • Bake the project

    • Windows: lib/bin/cake bake project app

    • Look okay? (y/n/q) [y] > y

    • You should now have the complete CakePHP structure under app

  • Edit app/webroot/index.php. Replace CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH (around line 55)

define('CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH', ROOT . DS . 'lib' . DS . 'cakephp' . DS . 'cakephp' . DS . 'lib');
  • Edit app/Config/bootstrap.php. Add the following
//Enable Plugins
CakePlugin::loadAll();

// Load Composer autoload.
require ROOT . DS . 'lib' . DS . 'autoload.php';

// Remove and re-prepend CakePHP's autoloader as Composer thinks it is the
// most important.
// See: http://goo.gl/kKVJO7
spl_autoload_unregister(array('App', 'load'));
spl_autoload_register(array('App', 'load'), true, true);
  • Edit AppController class in app/Controller/AppController.php
class AppController extends Controller {
	public $components = array('DebugKit.Toolbar', 'Session');
}

  • Your base CakePHP app is setup.

  • Create the database and configure app/Config/database.php

  • Setup BoostCake: Edit /app/controllers/AppController.php. Add the following in the AppController class:

	public $helpers = array(
		'Session',
		'Html' => array('className' => 'BoostCake.BoostCakeHtml'),
		'Form' => array('className' => 'BoostCake.BoostCakeForm'),
		'Paginator' => array('className' => 'BoostCake.BoostCakePaginator'),
	);
  • Set the bootstrap template as the default: Edit /app/controllers/AppController.php. Add the following in the AppController class
    function beforeFilter() {
        parent::beforeFilter();
        $this->layout = 'bootstrap';
    }

Grunt

  • npm install

    • This should setup Grunt and all of the grunt modules. You should see a node_modules directory created

  • grunt

    • This will run grunt for the first time.

  • grunt less

    • Compile less files for the first time