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Asked: 2026-05-12T21:39:17+00:00

Now, given how new I am, I’m rather lost as to how I get

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Now, given how new I am, I’m rather lost as to how I get started. Down the road, I want to use MVC framework so that I help myself be disciplined in the way I build. However, I know basic knowledge of PHP and OOP PHP are required. So my question is this: what are the right steps to mastering Cake PHP? I don’t want to skip critical phases of learning before learning to Cake PHP. At the same time, I don’t want to spend more time than required learning PHP if I can learn it directly through Cake PHP knowledge.

Any advice would be appreciated.

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  1. Editorial Team

    IMHO you should be comfortable writing at least a basic app in clean standard procedural code before using a framework. That means mastering all the basic elements of the language like if and switch, loops, functions, local and global variables, etc. It also includes being comfortable with HTTP GET and POST, RESTfulness and how to persist information between page loads (Cookies, Sessions, URL params). A basic idea of Javascript and AJAX would help as well.

    Good exercises might include:

    • A page that outputs database contents and is paginatable, filterable and sortable by various fields.
    • A shop checkout process or similar “wizard”-like page.

    That’s when you can pick up a framework, since most frameworks abstract exactly these kinds of tedious things away from you. Especially Cake has a lot of automagic built in, which will leave you hopelessly confused if something goes wrong and you have no knowledge of the above mentioned. To start with OOP, you might want to try something like Zend first, which is a lot more transparent in how objects are used.

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