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Example CakePHP codebase containing real world examples (CRUD, auth, advanced patterns and more) that adheres to the RealWorld spec and API.

This repo is functionality complete — PRs and issues welcome!

Getting started

Installation

Please check the official cakephp installation guide for server requirements before you start. Official Documentation

Clone the repository

git clone git@github.com:gothinkster/cakephp-realworld-example-app.git

Switch to the repo folder

cd cakephp-realworld-example-app

Install all the dependencies using composer

composer install

Configure your database settings in the config/app.php file(See: Datasource/default)

vi config/app.php

Run the database migrations (Set the database connection in app.php)

bin/cake migrations migrate

Start the local development server

bin/cake server

You can now access the server at http://localhost:8765

Database seeding

Populate the database with seed data with relationships which includes users, articles, comments, tags, favorites and follows. This can help you to quickly start testing the api or couple a frontend and start using it with ready content.

Run the database seeder and you're done

bin/cake migrations seed

API Specification

This application adheres to the api specifications set by the Thinkster team. This helps mix and match any backend with any other frontend without conflicts.

Full API Spec

For more information on how to this works with other frontends/backends, head over to the RealWorld repo.

How it works

Code overview

Dependencies

• cakedc/cakephp-api - For easy REST api implementation.
• muffin/slug - For auto generation of unique slugs.
• muffin/tags - For tags managements.
• cakephp/authentication - For authentication using JSON Web Tokens

Folders

• src - Contains all the application logic.
• config - Contains all the application configuration files.
• src/Model/Entity - Contains all cakephp ORM entites.
• src/Model/Table - Contains all cakephp ORM tables.
• src/Service - Contains application services that represents root api endpoints.
• src/Service/Action - Contains application endpoints logic logic.
• src/Service/Renderer - Contains the final api response formatter.
• /config/Migrations - Contains all the database migrations.

Environment configuration

• config/app.php - Configuration settings can be set in this file

Note : You can quickly set the database information and other variables in this file and have the application fully working.

Testing API

Run the cakephp development server

bin/cake server

The api can now be accessed at

http://localhost:8765/api

Request headers

Refer the api specification for more info.

Authentication

This applications uses JSON Web Token (JWT) to handle authentication. The token is passed with each request using the Authorization header with Token scheme. The cakephp authenticate middleware configured for handling JWT authentication and validation and authentication of the token. Please check the following sources to learn more about JWT.

• https://jwt.io/introduction/
• https://self-issued.info/docs/draft-ietf-oauth-json-web-token.html

Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)

This applications has CORS enabled by default on all API endpoints. Please check the following sources to learn more about CORS.

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Access_control_CORS
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-origin_resource_sharing
• https://www.w3.org/TR/cors