Comments on: Eclipse and CakePHP, BFF http://blog.spamguy.org/2008/05/30/eclipse-and-cakephp-bff/ Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:16:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: RB http://blog.spamguy.org/2008/05/30/eclipse-and-cakephp-bff/comment-page-1/#comment-59 RB Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:12:39 +0000 http://blog.spamguy.org/?p=114#comment-59 "My biggest criticism yet of CakePHP: the developers didn’t spend any time thinking of the repercussions from naming a directory and its child the same thing." Umm...no. Sorry. Your logic is affected by your flaming. There are not two "cake" folders in the download. There is a cake_ folder with a child folder called cake. Any non-absent-minded person would realize that the parent folder within the zip file represents the entire CakePHP PROJECT (aka distribution) and that the APP and CAKE directories are two top level directories. Now comes the fun when you set up XAMPP and Eclipse. Rather than storing your projects (APP folders) and the cake core in the root of XAMPP, you are instructed to create a nice little subdirectory called "cake" (or "cakeprojects" or "stuff"; that would ease your apparent confusion). Whatever you call it does not matter. Now you can have a cake\cake or cakeprojects\cake or stuff\cake. Rather than blaming the "developers," you should realize that the "developers" did not write that tutorial. A developer (NB: singular), community member, or cake guru wrote it. @Anonymous: You won't get code hinting for associated models without a little hacking. Check out comment 11 on the bakery article referenced above. “My biggest criticism yet of CakePHP: the developers didn’t spend any time thinking of the repercussions from naming a directory and its child the same thing.”

Umm…no. Sorry. Your logic is affected by your flaming. There are not two “cake” folders in the download. There is a cake_ folder with a child folder called cake. Any non-absent-minded person would realize that the parent folder within the zip file represents the entire CakePHP PROJECT (aka distribution) and that the APP and CAKE directories are two top level directories.

Now comes the fun when you set up XAMPP and Eclipse. Rather than storing your projects (APP folders) and the cake core in the root of XAMPP, you are instructed to create a nice little subdirectory called “cake” (or “cakeprojects” or “stuff”; that would ease your apparent confusion). Whatever you call it does not matter. Now you can have a cake\cake or cakeprojects\cake or stuff\cake.

Rather than blaming the “developers,” you should realize that the “developers” did not write that tutorial. A developer (NB: singular), community member, or cake guru wrote it.

@Anonymous: You won’t get code hinting for associated models without a little hacking. Check out comment 11 on the bakery article referenced above.

]]> By: Anonymous http://blog.spamguy.org/2008/05/30/eclipse-and-cakephp-bff/comment-page-1/#comment-58 Anonymous Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:00:09 +0000 http://blog.spamguy.org/?p=114#comment-58 I don't get code hinting for associated models! .... you do ? I don’t get code hinting for associated models! …. you do ?

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