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In my previous post "Pearing the Cake" I was looking to see if the separation between the cake framework and the cake application is easy. The answer is NO. There are many path constants used by both the framework and the application in many files. It is possible to do the separation, but I think in this case I will fork an other project from Cake and this wasn't my goal. So I created an other solution. I created a pear package from all files in CakePHP project and add some scripts to make the creation an the deployment of projects and applications easier.

Now, I have a problem to make it available to CakePHP users because I haven't my own server to install a pear channel. The problem will be solved very soon. I hope so.

The CakePHP pear package makes the installation and the deployment of applications easier, as I said. A user that has pear installed can do the following to work with Cake:

/** installing cakephp **/



[root@mylinux ~]#pear channel-discover pear.the_server_I_need.org

Adding Channel "pear.the_server_I_need.org" succeeded

Discovery of channel "pear.the_server_I_need.org" succeeded



[root@mylinux ~]# pear install cakephp

install ok: channel://pear.the_server_I_need.org/cakephp-0.10.6.1835



/** creating a first project with a default application (the "app" dir) **/



[root@mylinux ~]# mkdir my_first_project

[root@mylinux ~]# cd my_first_project

[root@mylinux my_first_project]# cake initproject



Init Project ...



        creating  ./VERSION.txt

        creating  ./.htaccess

        creating  ./app:

        creating  ./app/.htaccess

        creating  ./app/config:

        creating  ./app/config/core.php

        .....[snip].....

        creating  ./cake/libs/controller/components/dbacl/models/acoaction.php

        creating  ./cake/libs/controller/components/dbacl/models/aco.php

        creating  ./cake/libs/controller/components/dbacl/models/aro.php

        ......[snip].....

        creating  ./cake/scripts/bake.php

        creating  ./cake/scripts/acl.php

        creating  ./cake/app_controller.php

        creating  ./index.php



         cake project initialized ...

         default application created ...



/** creating a second application within my_first_ project **/



[root@mylinux my_first_project]# cake initapp mustap



        Creating application:  mustap...



        mustap:

        creating  ./mustap/.htaccess

        creating  ./mustap/config:

        creating  ./mustap/config/core.php

        .....[snip].....

        creating  ./mustap/webroot/js/vendors.php

        creating  ./mustap/webroot/.htaccess

        creating  ./mustap/index.php



        Application mustap created ...

That's all. It is very easy. Isn't it?
And any user that has a public_html folder on the system can create as many projects and applications as he wants with the above commands. The CakePHP pear package works under any nix platform and should work under win platform (I haven't tested it under windows).

to be continued...