CakePHP CMS Tutorial

The completed CMS tutorial application created during https://book.cakephp.org/5/en/tutorials-and-examples/cms/installation.html

Installation

1. Download Composer or update composer self-update.
2. Download this source code. git clone https://github.com/cakephp/cms-tutorial.git
3. Install dependencies with composer

cd cms-tutorial
composer install

Configuration

You can use the default configuration, using a sqlite3 file based database. In that case, no configuration is required. If you want to use your own database, update the 'Datasources' configuration in config/app.php. You'll also need to create a database and run the SQL located in the tutorial.

• Update the 'Datasources' configuration by:
  • editing config/app.php or config/app_local.php for your local database or
  • edit config/bootstrap.php to enable use of a .env file (uncomment the section that loads the .env file) (and provide the config/.env file.
• Create a database if needed.
• Run bin/cake migrations migrate to create the database tables.

Running the project

bin/cake server

Then point your browser to http://localhost:8765

You will be redirected to the /users/login page. This is the behavior we configured to request a valid username and password. The CMS Tutorial user Authentication and Authorization to identify the users.