I build this using cakePHP 1.1.19. It was an exercise for a company I applied for.
The task was simple, build a blog application using cakephp. I was given 3 days to work this out.
From thursday night(I think.) to saturday night. So technically, I had two nights and one whole day to do it.
Let us, disregard the fact that it had been almost a year since I last dealt with anything that has something to do with cakePHP framework. But having just this span of time to build something, I do not know if I could do it.
Mainly because I have not really made a whole cakephp app on my own. I do not know how to handle sessions in cake, make a simple validation and other simple things like those. But I have a clear picture of how should my blog application should look like. Because I’ve been blogging for sometime. And I have been using a number of online applications that I think, I know what is expected from this work.
And so I accepted the challenge and spent the next hours reviewing cakephp basics, building my database and then baking… Ooopss.. I have forgotten the basics like apache mod_rewrite and how to actually use the bake script in Console.
Before I had difficulty with this. I have forgotten that changing configuration files in your server means you have to restart xampp again..
This and all that. I was able to finish the application on time. So I was happy. This exercise made me want to study cakephp more.
