On Feb 6, 5:03 pm, Baz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm never sure whether I'm doing things the "right" way. To be > honest, all this MVC stuff was brand new to me by the time I started. This > is why I've been hesitant to submit articles to the bakery, for example. > Since a lot of my stuff, can be considered patchwork, I wouldn't want to > mislead people searching for "official" solutions on the bakery (and even > Official Docs). That's why I usually keep my ramblings on my own blog.
This sums up how I feel as well. I dived into using CakePHP maybe a year ago now, and it's taken me all this time to get from the stage where it works, all the way to the stage where I'm starting to use it in the proper MVC spirit. I find it difficult working out from the API/source code just what's going on. For example, it takes me anything up to an hour sometimes just to work out how to do something like disable labels using the form helper, trying to work out where all the different option array elements are being used. So I want to help other people out, but I worry I'm not doing things the right way. On my own site, I can say "this is how I'm making sites. It works, but it may not be the best way. Please tell me if you find a better way of doing something and I'll update my guide to do it that way instead." If I was writing official documentation, I'd feel like I was saying "this is how it's *supposed* to be done, how it *should* be done." I don't feel confident enough to make that claim. If anyone else can get the documentation and code commenting to the stage where us early adopters of CakePHP 1.2 can see what each method of each class is doing in sufficient detail, I'm sure we can all group together and help with the official documentation. I'd be happy to, and it looks like others are too. Is this something we can do together? I hope I'm not out of line with these suggestions, I'm just trying to help bridge the gap between those who are great at writing code, and those like myself who are perhaps not so good at programming, but are still good at explaining how things work in simpler terms. Thanks, Zoe. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
