# May have to use Cake PHP

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/may-have-to-use-cake-php/146923>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 26, 2008, 9:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/may-have-to-use-cake-php/146923 "2008-08-26T21:15:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Joe\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/5e9695/32.png) [@Joe\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Joe_K)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2008, 9:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/may-have-to-use-cake-php/146923/1 "2008-08-26T21:15:02Z")

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I am normally a rails dev, but I have a project coming up where I think  
I am  
going to be restricted to php. Does anyone know of some sort of “Cake  
PHP  
for Rails devs” tutorial? I would like to read a book first, but this  
may be  
the only project I use cakephp for, so I would rather not spend a bunch  
learning it.

Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![Joe\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/5e9695/32.png) [@Joe\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Joe_K)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2008, 9:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/may-have-to-use-cake-php/146923/2 "2008-08-26T21:31:27Z")

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In my limited experience, Cake tries to be as Rails-like as possible  
given the limitations of php. My suggestion would be to try to do  
things the Rails way, and see how far you get. You will need to know  
the syntactic differences between Ruby and php, for that you might try  
reverse-reading the Rails for PHP developers page in the Rails wiki.

Walter

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**Author:** ![Joe\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/5e9695/32.png) [@Joe\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Joe_K)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2008, 11:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/may-have-to-use-cake-php/146923/3 "2008-08-26T23:37:30Z")

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Hi, you might want to post this question in the CakePHP forum. There  
should be a link on their main site.

Good look,

-Conrad

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