So far in our Cake tutorials, we have learned the basics of CakePHP, and used some pretty time saving and neat features. Thus far, most of these features we have implemented have been easy fixes to small issues, that save at most a few hundred of code. Today, we will be using a really neat view/controller combo that will make creating a paginated view as easy as.....well, cake!

In our last tutorial, we created a form that gave us the ability to add products to our product database. To save time, we just created the form in the main page. While this was fine then, now we are going to take that form and give it a page of its own. This will allow us to view products on one page and add products on another, plus it is more professional and user-friendly. So dig in and get started!

Over our last few Cake tutorials, we have done a lot with so little code. We built a local website, set up our first Cake site, then finally used helpers to organize and make things look a bit nicer. Up until now we have been working with 2 measly database records. This has worked just fine until now, but we are going to need some more data for the tutorials to come.

Last time we talked Cake, we went over the very basics of website building in CakePHP. All we did was grab some data, pass it to the view and crudely display it on the page. Today, we will be building on our code from the last tutorial. We will be using some cool features of Cake to streamline and style our code.

A couple weeks ago, in our first Cake tutorial, we went over how to setup a local development environment and configure CakePHP to work with our database. In this tutorial we will be covering the basics of a Cake application, resulting in our "Hello World" example.

Today we will be going over the basic setup and configuration of the rapid application framework CakePHP. Actual cakephp development will be covered over a series of tutorials, but for this one, we will be getting the environment ready for future use. It is an easy and simple process, and does not take huge amounts of time. That is the beauty of such frameworks: Rapid Development and Deployment.