Yesterday, I tweeted out that I was going to give CakePHP a try over the weekend, with the end goal of creating a plugin for CakePHP to be able to send emails via PostageApp.
Welp, I’ve done the bare minimum to give it a try – I went through the ‘create a blog’ example they had in their documentation.
What you end up with is a pretty simple web page that lists all of the posts (title and body) that are in your database, and you can add, edit, or delete posts as you see fit. It was pretty darn easy to set up, and it gave me a much better understanding of the MVC coding process.
I’m going to fiddle with it some more until I can actually add functionality to it (thinking of adding comments) and some sort of layout. If you want to check out what I’ve built so far, here’s the link: hellocake.upatom.com
Feel free to add/edit/delete posts on the site, and even feel more free to leave me weird messages!
Let’s see how far I can get with this!