Cake Exchange!

A project built using CakePHP 3.
This is a quick site which emulates Stack Exchange in order to learn the new version of the framework.

Setup

If you want to check it out you can clone the repo.
git clone https://github.com/davidyell/Learning-CakePHP3.git CakeExchange

Then you'll want to install the dependancies using Composer
composer install

The front-end components are also installed using Bower, so you will need the Bower npm package installed. Then install the assets with, bower install

There is also a gulp taks for compiling the Sass into Css. gulp sass

For more information on installing the npm tools check out their pages.

• npm
• bower
• gulp

Login

Login password is just the first part of the users email.

Database

I have added a dump of the database for ease of use. You can find it in db_dump.

Concepts covered

• Layouts
• Views
• Tables
• Behaviors (counterCache)
• Table objects
• Entities
• Query builder w/ Containable
• AuthComponent
• Behaviors w/ Tests
• AJAX

Code sniffer

In order to run the code sniffer you will need to set the path to the CakePHP standard.

$ vendor/bin/phpcs --config-set default_standard CakePHP
$ vendor/bin/phpcs --config-set installed_paths vendor/cakephp/cakephp-codesniffer

Todo

• Upgrade to alpha-2
• Refactor App to Src
• Update routes.php
• Include code sniffer
• Fix phpcs errors