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
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composer install
- You should now have an app and lib directory
Refer to http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/installation/advanced-installation.html
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Bake the project
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Windows:
lib/bin/cake bake project app
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Look okay? (y/n/q) [y] >
y
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You should now have the complete CakePHP structure under app
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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');
}
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Your base CakePHP app is setup.
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Create the database and configure app/Config/database.php
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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';
}
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npm install
- This should setup Grunt and all of the grunt modules. You should see a node_modules directory created
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grunt
- This will run grunt for the first time.
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grunt less
- Compile less files for the first time