Where to Get Help

The Official CakePHP website is always a great place to visit. It features links to oft-used developer tools,
screencasts, donation opportunities, and downloads.

The Cookbook

This manual should probably be the first place you go to get answers. As with many other open source
projects, we get new folks regularly. Try your best to answer your questions on your own first. Answers
may come slower, but will remain longer – and you’ll also be lightening our support load. Both the manual
and the API have an online component.

The Bakery

The CakePHP Bakery is a clearing house for all things regarding CakePHP. Check it out for tutorials, case
studies, and code examples. Once you’re acquainted with CakePHP, log on and share your knowledge with
the community and gain instant fame and fortune.

The API

Straight to the point and straight from the core developers, the CakePHP API (Application Programming
Interface) is the most comprehensive documentation around for all the nitty gritty details of the internal
workings of the framework. It’s a straight forward code reference, so bring your propeller hat.

The Test Cases

If you ever feel the information provided in the API is not sufficient, check out the code of the test cases
provided with CakePHP. They can serve as practical examples for function and data member usage for a
class.

lib/Cake/Test/Case

The IRC channel

• #cakephp – General Discussion
• #cakephp-docs – Documentation
• #cakephp-bakery – Bakery

If you’re stumped, give us a holler in the CakePHP IRC channel. Someone from the development team38
is usually there, especially during the daylight hours for North and South America users. We’d love to hear
from you, whether you need some help, want to find users in your area, or would like to donate your brand
new sports car.

Official CakePHP Forum

Our official forum is where you can ask for help, suggest ideas and have a talk about CakePHP. It’s a perfect place for quickly finding answers and help others. Join the CakePHP family by signing up.

Stackoverflow

Tag your questions with cakephp and the specific version you are using to enable existing users of stackoverflow to find your questions.

Where to get Help in your Language

Brazilian Portuguese

• Brazilian CakePHP Community41

Danish

• Danish CakePHP Slack Channel42

French

• French CakePHP Community43

German

• German CakePHP Slack Channel44
• German CakePHP Facebook Group45

Iranian

• Iranian CakePHP Community46

Dutch

• Dutch CakePHP Slack Channel47

Japanese

• CakePHP JAPAN Facebook Group48

Portuguese

• Portuguese CakePHP Google Group49

Spanish

• Spanish CakePHP Slack Channel50
• Spanish CakePHP IRC Channel
• Spanish CakePHP Google Group5