In my recent blog, I’ve presented a development model, frameworks and tools for scalable, high performance systems as social networks. CakePhp, Prototype & Json are three tools that we must learn fisrt. In this blog, I would note some steps to use CakePHP, Prototype and Json together.
1. Download and install CakePHP 1.2x (I installed and run well in Slackware 12.0)
1.1 Download CakePHP 1.2x (Example: cake_1.2.0.7692-rc3.tar.gz)
# wget http://cakeforge.org/frs/download.php/671/cake_1.2.0.7692-rc3.tar.gz
1.2 Extract and move to /www/ folder
# tar -zxf cake_1.2.0.7692-rc3.tar.gz
# mv cake_1.2.0.7692-rc3 /www/cake_1.2.0.7692-rc3
1.3 Modify /etc/httpd/httpd.conf
1.3.1. Enable mod_rewrite (just remove comment – uncomment)
LoadModule rewrite_module /lib/httpd/modules/mod_rewrite.so
1.3.2. Re-configure DirectoryRoot
DocumentRoot “/www/cake_1.2.0.7692-rc3/”
1.3.3. Add DirectoryIndex (index.php index.htm index.html) and modify AllowOverride ( All ) params to tag <Directoy> of “/www/cake_1.2.0.7692-rc3/”
<Directory “/www/cake_1.2.0.7692-rc3/”>
DirectoryIndex index.php index.htm index.html
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
1.3.4 Restart your apache
# cd /etc/rc.d/
# rc.httpd restart
1.4 Configure cakephp database, modify …/app/config/database.php
var $default = array(
‘driver’ => ‘mysql’,
‘persistent’ => false,
‘host’ => ‘yourservername_or_ip’,
‘login’ => ‘db_username’,
‘password’ => ‘db_password,
‘database’ => ‘db_name’,
‘prefix’ => ”);
You also can define more than one database, but you should define those with names are not ‘default’.
1.5. chmod and chown cakephp ../app/tmp folder
chmod 775 -R /www/cake_1.2.0.7692-rc3/app/tmp
chown -R your_apache_account /www/cake_1.2.0.7692-rc3/app/tmp
Now, http://localhost/ is showing your cakePHP page (You should have break then go to the 2nd step)
2. Intergrate Json to CakePHP
3. Download Prototype and use with CakePHP
4. Sample
To be continous …