The Manual

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Welcome to the Cookbook, the CakePHP documentation. The Cookbook is a wiki-like system allowing contributions from the public. With an open system, we hope to maintain a high level of quality, validity, and accuracy for the CakePHP documentation. The Cookbook also makes it easy for anybody to contribute.

A huge thank you to AD7six, who championed the Cookbook by putting in endless hours developing, testing and improving this application.

# How it Works:

  1. You visit the site and notice an error, something that is incomplete, something that hasn't been covered at all, or something that just isn't worded to your liking.
  2. Log in to Cookbook using your Bakery account.
  3. Submit additions/edits for review using valid, semantic HTML.
  4. Check back in the next day or so to see your changes approved.
  5. Please review the guidelines for submitting to the Cookbook to ensure consistency.

# Translations

Email John David Anderson (docs at cakephp dot org) or on IRC (#cakephp on freenode as _psychic_) to discuss any translation efforts you would like to participate in.

Translator tips:

  • Do not use html entities for accented characters, the book uses UTF-8.
  • Use Informal Form.
  • Translate both the content and the title at the same time.
  • Browse and edit in the language the content is being translated to - otherwise it get's logged as an English Edit with only a slim chance that a reviewer knows what language you are writing in.
  • Don't significantly change the markup (HTML) or add new content - If the original content is missing some info, submit an edit for that first.
  • Do change any cross-reference links to point at the translated language.
  • If you need to write an English term, wrap it in <em> tags. E.g. "asdf asdf Controller asdf" or "asdf asdf Kontroller (Controller) asfd" as appropriate.

New! get the book's fixed contents in your language by sending the Pot file to either AD7six or Psychic.


We're committed to making the documentation for CakePHP better than it has ever been. We hope you'll join us by using the Cookbook and giving back to a project that we've all benefited so much from.

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