With this book, we've aimed to cover and resolve the typically common tasks when workingwith CakePHP. To do this, we collected the most popular questions from support websitesaround the Web on how to use certain features or perform common actions with theframework, and ranked them in order of frequency. We then proposed a solution for eachof these; once this was done, we put together what we considered to be a comprehensiveguide to how to get the job done fast, and right, in each scenario.While we've done our best to approach each topic with a sound solution, we have beenaware of the possibly uneven level of technical knowledge each reader may have. So, wherepossible, we've tried to keep our examples in line with simple or reasonably understandableparameters so as to reduce any additional knowledge that would potentially be required ineach case.We've dedicated many hours to reviewing each case and hope that you find somethinguseful throughout the scenarios we've outlined. Where it's been obvious, we've relied onbasic knowledge of the framework so as to not overburden each tutorial with additionalinstructions. However, for anyone completely new to the framework, after completing theblog tutorial included in the CakePHP documentation ( should feel quite comfortable with the assumptions we've made along the way.