User:Sancus/Cake Questions

• What is the preferred mechanism for localization of template content with Cake?
  • Cake doesn't seem to have built-in localization support yet. There are a couple of approaches created by users, however.
  • http://wiki.cakephp.org/tutorials:i18n - Locale Package, double underscore method
  • http://wiki.cakephp.org/tutorials:i18n_v2 - Using the PEAR Translation2 class.

• What options do we have for view caching in a clustered environment (where not all servers will see the app writing through a Model to the database)? I suspect something like memcached will be involved, though maybe that's done implicitly through the Cake stuff
  • http://api.cakephp.org/paths_8php.html#08e1be4b785493d9fc2ae52c5ba9ab2e
  • The cake caching system seems to be able to work on a multi-server setup.

• What support for schema migration and versioning is present in Cake, and what are the limitations?
  • http://wiki.cakephp.org/tutorials:cake_migrations - Cake Migrations, seems to be very new, only supports create/dropping of Tables currently, but planned support for columns, etc. Thus, support for migration and versioning seems to be pretty limited currently.

• What are the preferred test pattern/tools for unit and functional testing under Cake (both automated and human-run)?
  • Uses SimpleTest
  • http://wiki.cakephp.org/tutorials:testing_cake_apps
  • Supports testing forms and urls directly in addition to the class/method testing