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One of the most challenging issues I’ve found in developing with CakePhp is unit testing. Testing models, with its dependence on fixtures, is especially touchy. The documentation, while constantly improving, still seems at crucial points incomplete or inconsistent. In this post, I’d like to draw attention to a few pitfalls that I burned a few [...]

Project Cakewell is a CakePhp prototype application. Its main purpose is to document and demonstrate useful concepts and features of a web application built with the CakePhp framework. These include things like unit testing a component, creating a working fixture , and configuring your application to automatically detect the server environment and set the debug [...]