<?
/**
 * This only needs to be changed if the cake installed libs are located
 * outside of the distributed directory structure.
 */
        if (!defined('CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH')) {
                define('CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH', ROOT.DS.'..'.DS.'cake1.2');
        }
?>

This file locate in (cake folder distribution) ./app/webroot/index.php, and the logic of this configuration was to find the cake engine below root of the webfolder, in other words your cake engine not visible from the outside-word / no direct testing phpscript.

Lets see on the example (I am using XAMPP).
I Install XAMPP on folder /xampp, with the root of webfolder /xamp/htdocs, so if I am using configuration above, I must install cake engine on /xampp/cake1.2

This is the flow when I call action in cakephp, and it use 1 table.

With Table
app\webroot\index.php – New Dispatcher -> dispatch(url)
–cake\bootstrap.php
—-cake\basics.php
—-app\config\core.php
—-cake\config\paths.php
—-cake\libs\object.php
—-cake\libs\session.php
—-cake\libs\security.php
—-cake\libs\inflector.php
—-cake\libs\configure.php
——app\config\bootstrap.php
—-cake\dispatcher.php
——cake\libs\router.php
——–cake\libs\overloadable.php
———-cake\libs\overloadable_php4.php
——cake\libs\controller\controller.php
——–cake\libs\controller\component.php
——–cake\libs\view\view.php
———-cake\libs\view\helper.php
———-cake\libs\class_registry.php
——app\config\routes.php – parseParams() – dispatch()
——cake\app_controller.php – loadController() – dispatch()
——app\controllers\pages_controller.php – loadController() – dispatch()
——app\config\inflections.php – __initPluralRules() – pluralize() – inflector() – dispatch()
——cake\libs\controller\components\session.php – … – dispatch()
——cake\libs\model\model.php – loadmodel() – loadPluginModel() – dispatch()
——–cake\libs\validators.php
——–cake\libs\model\behavior.php
——–cake\libs\model\connection_manager.php
———-cake\libs\model\datasources\datasource.php
———-app\config\database.php – config() -> basics.php
——–cake\libs\set.php
——cake\app_model.php – loadmodel() – $controller->constructClasses() – dispatch()
——app\models\category.php – loadmodel() – $controller->constructClasses() – dispatch()
——–cake\libs\model\datasources\dbo_source.php – setSource() – __construct() -> model.php
——–cake\libs\model\datasources\dbo\dbo_mysql.php – setSource() – __construct() -> model.php
——cake\app_helper.php
——cake\libs\view\helpers\html.php
——cake\libs\view\helpers\session.php
——app\views\pages\display.thtml

–dispatch()
—-$controller->_initcomponents()
—-$controller->constructClasses()

for version 1.2
https://svn.cakephp.org/repo/branches/1.2.x.x

for version 1.1
https://svn.cakephp.org/repo/trunk/cake/1.x.x.x

for version 2.x
https://svn.cakephp.org/repo/branches/2.x.x.x
**need developer password**

Some time is hard to understand how the framework work by reading the source of code, to be little bit understand, I draw this picture using mind mapper.

Just got today, link from cakephp-google-groups – “Cake PHP Vs Prado Vs Symfony”. I extract Nate Presentation.

My Development is on windows, I use Apache, two distributions that I like are XAMPP and WAMP, to get full comparison you can go to “Comparison of WAMPs” from WikiPedia

This is how I set configuration on PHP-Eclipse to know file.thtml.
first open menu in eclipse as you see in this picture below ( Window -> Preferences ),

after that you see on the TREE MENU click on “Content Types” and on the Right-Top, click “PHP Source File”, see the Right-Box Below and Add “File Associations” for “*.thtml”

on the TREE MENU click on “Editor – File Associations” add File Types:*.thtml and set Associated Editor to “PHP Editor”.

November 3, 2006 I began search and study cakephp framework, and since then I gain a lot of understanding. and I think some of the understanding with this framework need to note.

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