The Bakery Everything CakePHP

Whilst cake provides you with basic mobile detection, it doesn't cut it in the real world, there are literally thousands of mobile devices / browsers that will slip through the requestHandler's net.

By plugging Wapple Architect into cake and using web services to do your device detection, you can easily describe your mobile pages in WAPL and let Wapple work out which markup to output to a particular device.

Nowadays RESTful architecture based API (web services) development is accepted across the Web as a simpler alternative to SOAP - and Web Services Description Language (WSDL)-based Web services. Key evidence of this shift is the adoption of REST by web 2.0 service providers, including Yahoo, Google, and Facebook, who have shifted their SOAP and WSDL-based web services to RESTFul API. RESTful development has become the standard way of creating a web application.

Recently I was entrusted with a project which required me to setup a XML-RPC services server on an installation of CakePHP. I could not find an implementation that would suit my needs so I thought about embarking on this adventure on my own.

This implementation is beautifully simple and one more example of extending Cake's power.

I have tried to enumerate the implementation in a few steps. I hope it will be easy for everyone to follow.