I think CakePHP is still too rough, too much in flux for there to be an O'Reilly book. Perhaps when they release version 2 would be best. But if that's bad news, the good news is there are lots of opportunities for you to get together and publish all the gotchas, the nuances of Cake.
There are lots of questions developers need answers for, all it takes to answer those questions is the willingness to go through the core code. Questions like: How can I force Cake to insert a record into a model even if all the fields are null? How does the Paginate version of find differ from find and findall? What are the options for passing data using RequestAction? How do you access data from an Ajax view called by $this->render? What are the ways you can share common processing between a multitude of actions? How do you standardize accessing the return set from a query that may have many-to-one records or just one-to-one? Any good ways to avoid accessing like this? $email = $data['Email'][0]['email']. If you've built even just one website using CakePHP at the back-end, you know these questions, and you have valuable answers. Since the core team is busy dealing with the flux, this is how you can make your own reputation. Paul Wolborsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Jun 12, 10:13 am, Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey all, > I've really wanted a well-documented book on CakePHP. You know, > something like O'Reilly books that gives you the skinny on Cake in > more details than what's in the online manual. Maybe something with > recipes. Well, a look on Amazon reveals that there's plenty of stuff > like that out there for RoR or Symfony even, but nothing for Cake. > (Well, there's a "CakePHP Recipes" book that is unavailable, and who > knows when it will be published.) > > So my thought is this: why doesn't somebody write it? Whomever does > this would probably make bank. I know I'd pay the $40 for it, if it > really got somewhere. I know that I just don't have the depth of skill > to do it, or I would. But it would be incredibly useful to have > tutorials and recipes in one place, printed, in my hands, you know? > > Just a thought... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
