Introduction

CakePHP is a web framework for rapid application development (RAD), which admittedly covers a wide range of areas and possibilities. However, at its core, it provides a solid architecture for the CRUD (create/read/update/delete) interface.

This chapter is a set of quick-start recipes to dive head first into using the framework and build out a simple CRUD around product management.

If you want to try the code examples on your own, make sure that you have CakePHP 2.5.2 installed and configured to use a database—you should see something like this: