How to begin learning CakePHP or any other MVC framework

I want to learn some MVC framework. I am trying to learn CakePHP by reading the docs on their website. But I am finding it very difficult to learn it.

Can someone suggest a good way to begin learning CakeP开发者_如何学PythonHP and provide some alternative websites?

If you're anything like me, you will only learn so much from reading; it's important to have a project. Find something you want to actually build. Even if it's the ubiquitous blog application, it's something with a definitive set of requirements that are reasonably well known--at least to you. If you're an experienced enough as a developer, you should have a pretty decent idea of what you want to do and from there it's just a matter of determining the (Cake|Rails|Django|etc.) way of doing that particular thing. Take it one thing at a time and eventually everything will click.

Pick a framework with an active (and helpful community). Leverage the documentation and that community extensively to help you get over the learning curve. There will be a learning curve and you will get discouraged from time to time. If you can power through, you'll be better for it.

It's rather generic advice, I know, but it's a rather high level question. Hopefully it helps some.

Some pages that could give you a good start:

• Bakery Blog tutorial - a simple blog that covers the basic principles .. this one gives you a guided project
• IBM developerWorks tutorial 1 - as the next one this is a bit out of date but helped me a lot
• IBM developerWorks tutorial 2 - build a wiki
• my delicious cake bookmarks - well .. you might as well look it up there

tart doing something...only by practicing you will get something to know

try to do a blog, and you will use these techniques in every your project

Symfony's Askeet tutorial (now published as the "Practical symfony" book and still online for free) is designed to introduce the concepts and features in a hands-on way with "24 tutorials of 1 hour each". I would guess it would work to pick up many of the general MVC concepts too.

I started to learn CakePHP around 2 months ago, and then jumped (hit the ground running on a large Cake PHP project). The way I have found to learn Cake is to read EVERY (relevant) article around, as well as the 4 books in Print. Spefically I would read 'Cakephp Application development' first as that book seems to be best 'all-rounder'.