I’ve got a couple of messages from [apparently] junior programmers regarding my previous post, so I decided to go back and explain some of the magic that’s happening every day inside Cake applications. As you know (or should have known) Cake does a lot of magic behind the scenes, as long as we’re following some [...]

This is a tutorial which can be used by those who want to setup a basic user administration and authentication in CakePHP, one of the most popular MVC PHP frameworks around. We will be using the Auth component of Cake and we will create some administration screens. Setting up the database First of all we [...]