CakePHP on Cloudjiffy

CakePHP is a rapid development framework for PHP which uses commonly known design patterns like Associative Data Mapping, Front Controller, and MVC. It makes common web-development tasks simple and easy with its customized tool. Start with various parts of CakePHP working well together or separately in an all-in-one toolbox. 

Salient Features:

• No configuration.
• Clean MVC Conventions
• Built-in packages for translations, database access, validation, and authentication.
• No complicated XML or YAML files, just a setup of a database is needed.
• Friendly license for commercial applications.
• Secure.
• Premium support.

Key differences between Laravel vs CakePHP

Both Laravel and CakePHP are popular choices in the market; let us discuss some of the major Difference Between Laravel vs CakePHP:

• Laravel works on the object-oriented model, while CakePHP works on the document-oriented database model.
• Laravel is based on Model View Controller (MVC) architecture, while CakePHP is implemented on hierarchical model View Controller (HMVC) architecture
• Laravel is not suitable for smaller projects and becomes a bit complex for the same, while CakePHP is much more suitable for building smaller projects.
• From a security benchmark, CakePHP plays a crucial role than Laravel.
• CakePHP is a more convenient choice than of Laravel in terms of routing perspective.
• From a scaling perspective, Laravel hits the rise over the CakePHP framework and this happens more while considering the construction of large projects.
• Laravel Framework is a much better choice than CakePHP in case of fast web development, Enhancement perspective, a data backup, and handling perspective.
• In the case of Laravel, there is a compiler functionality found, while no such function is present for CakePHP.

Requirements:

• HTTP Server. For example Apache mod_rewrite (optional), Nginx, or Microsoft IIS.
• Minimum PHP 7.2 (7.4 supported).
• mbstring PHP extension
• intl PHP extension
• simplexml PHP extension
• PDO PHP extension

Note: After enabling extensions in the php.ini file, restart the app server.

To enable extensions refer to the below link:
https://cloudjiffy.com/portal/knowledgebase/152/Extensions-in-PHP.html

How to install Cakephp on CloudJiffy?

STEPS – 

Step 1:  Login to CloudJiffy.

    Go to https://app.cloudjiffy.com/

    Login using your credentials.

Step 2: Create Environment with Apache server and DB server

Click on New Environment > Select Apache and DB server

Note: You will get the PHPMyAdmin link and its credentials on the registered email id. Create the database.

Step3: Installation of CakePHP

Take the webssh of the app server and do the following commands:

 cd /var/www/webroot/ROOT/

composer create-project –prefer-dist cakephp/app:4.0.3 cakephp4

In the end, it will ask for Set Folder Permissions.

Note: Change ‘httpOnly’ to ‘httponly’ in /var/www/webroot/ROOT/cakephp4/config/routes.php  as Option ‘httpOnly’ is deprecated.

Now you can open the link in the browser:

http://env-name.cloudjiffy.net/cakephp4/

CakePHP is not able to connect to the database. Let’s connect the database to the CakePHP.

Step 4: Database Connection

The database can be configured in config/app.php and config/app_local.php file. This file contains a default connection with the provided parameters, which can be modified as per our choice.

config/app_local.php

Now we can see that the CakePHP is able to connect to the database.

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