Cakephp Interview Questions and Answers

Question: What is  cakephp?.

Answer: 

CakePHP  is a free, open-source, rapid development framework for PHP. It's a foundational structure for programmers to create web applications. There is number of in built component like Ajax, RequestHandler, Session etc

Question: What are are drawbacks of cakephp.

Answer : The learning curve, and it loads full application before it starts your task. Its not recommended for small projects because of its resource heavy structure.

Question : What is MVC (model, view, and controller) in cakephp?

Answer : Model–view–controller (MVC) is an architectural pattern used in software engineering.

Model: Databases function exist in the model

View: Design parts written here

Controller: Business Login

Question : What is the name of Cakephp database configuration file name and its location?

Answer: Default file name is database.php.default.

Its located in "/app/config/database.php.defaut"

Question : What are component, helper and why are they used?

Answer: A component is an independent piece of code written for specific task that can be used(Eg Email, Ajax, RequestHandler and Session).

A helper is used for helping cakephp in rendering the data to be shown to user with views(Eg Form, HTML etc).

Question : What are commonly used components of cakephp?

Answer: Following are some components which is used in cakephp.

• Security

• Sessions

• ACL(Access control lists)

• Auth(Authentication)

• Emails

• Cookies

• RequestHandling

• MVC architecture

• Built-in validations

• Caching

• scaffolding

Question: What is HABTM.

Answer: Full form of Has And Belongs To Many.

It is a kind of associations that can be defined in models for retrieving associated data across different entities.

For Example

A product have one or more tags, and a tag may belongs to one or more product.

/**
 * Post Model
 *
 * @property Tag $Tag
 */
class Post extends AppModel {

/**
 * Display field
 *
 * @var string
 */
 public $displayField = 'name';

/**
 * Validation rules
 *
 * @var array
 */
 public $validate = array( );

/**
 * hasAndBelongsToMany associations
 *
 * @var array
 */
 public $hasAndBelongsToMany = array(
  'Tag' => array(
   'className' => 'Tag',
   'joinTable' => 'posts_tags',
   'foreignKey' => 'post_id',
   'associationForeignKey' => 'tag_id',
   'unique' => 'keepExisting',
  )
 );

 
}

Question : What is default function and default controller of cakephp which is called automatically?

Answer: Default controller is indexController.php and Default function is index.

Question : How cakephp URL looks in address bar
Answer: http://example.com/controller/action/param1/param2/param3

Question : Why cakephp have two vendor folder?

Answer: There is two vendor folder, one folder in root and another is in "app" folder

Question : List some database related functions in cakephp.

Answer: find, findAll , findAllBy , findBy , findNeighbours and query.

Question : List some of the features in Cakephp

Answer: Following are some feature of Cakephp.

Question : list some of the features in Cakephp

Answer: Following are some feature of Cakephp.

MVC architecture

Built-in validations

Caching

scaffolding