Here’s a list of various CakePHP turorials, organized by subject. I’m trying to stick to mostly 1.2 stuff, but included some 1.1 tutorials that we’re still helpful. Leave a comment if I missed one and I’ll add it to the list.

Books

You can also read my review of CakePHP Application Development here.

Also I have a free CakePHP e-book – make sure to check it out.

      

General

manual.cakephp.org – The 1.1/Old Manual
book.cakephp.org – The 1.2/New Manual
api.cakephp.org – The API

Getting Started

www.ibm.com – IBM’s 5-part “Cook up Web sites fast with CakePHP”
manual.cakephp.org – CakePHP Blog Tutorial
cakephp.bytenoise.co.uk – In the Kitchen with CakePHP

Version 1.2 Info

cakebaker.42dh.com – Deprecated stuff in CakePHP 1.2

Bake Console

cakebaker.42dh.com – Faster baking with bake
www.littlehart.net – Screencast: Interactive Console for CakePHP

Debugging

www.cakephp.org – Using Debug Messages

Test Suite

bakery.cakephp.org – Testing Models with CakePHP 1.2 test suite
cakebaker.42dh.com – How to use the official CakePHP test suite

Auth Component

www.littlehart.net – Simple User Registration in CakePHP 1.2
www.webdevelopment2.com – CakePHP Auth Component For Dummies Tutorial
www.webdevelopment2.com – CakePHP Auth Component – Tutorial Two

ACL

lemoncake.wordpress.com – Using AclBehavior in CakePHP 1.2
lemoncake.wordpress.com – Using AuthComponent and ACL in CakePHP 1.2
bakery.cakephp.org – How to use ACL with Cake PHP 1.2.x?
www.realm3.com – Setting Up User Groups With ACL and Auth in CakePHP 1.2

Ajax

bakery.cakephp.org – Getting started quickly with Scriptaculous effects

Advanced Ajax

blogs.bigfish.tv – Drag and drop using Ext JS with the CakePHP Tree Behavior
mentalramblings.info – CakePHP Ajax Comments

HABTM

tempdocs.cakephp.org – hasAndBelongsToMany (HABTM)

Admin Routing

www.cakephp.org – Admin Routing

Validation

bakery.cakephp.org – Multiple rules of validation per field in CakePHP 1.2
cakebaker.42dh.com – Validation with CakePHP 1.2
tempdocs.cakephp.org – Data Validation

Pagination

tempdocs.cakephp.org – Pagination
www.littlehart.net – CakePHP Pagination With A HABTM Relationship
cakebaker.42dh.com – Pagination of data from a HABTM relationship
PHP Log (German) – Pagination of the Tree Behaviour

RSS

cake.insertdesignhere.com – Cake 1.2’s new RSS helper

Theming

www.sanisoft.com – Theming your CakePHP apps (V1.2)
www.pseudocoder.com – Theming With CakePHP

Counter Cache

cakebaker.42dh.com – Counting associated records
www.cakephp.nu – CounterCache in CakePHP 1.2 beta

Builds

ertw.com – Pushing a CakePHP app from dev to prod

The Set Lib

www.thinkingphp.org – Cake 1.2’s Set class eats nested arrays for breakfast!
cakebaker.42dh.com – An alternative way to create arrays