Cakephp's bake console is the fastest way to create models, view and controller. In order to create it first you need to create the table. In this case I am creating Users table:

CREATE TABLE users (
    id INT UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
    username VARCHAR(50),
    password VARCHAR(255),
    role VARCHAR(20),
    created DATETIME DEFAULT NULL,
    modified DATETIME DEFAULT NULL
);

Now lets start with bake console, open terminal and go to the app directory of cakephp:

$ cd /var/www/html/cakephp/app

Lets start with cake bake with this command:

amuk@amuk:/var/www/html/cakephp/app$ sudo ./Console/cake bake all

Following output will be seen on your console:

Welcome to CakePHP v2.7.11 Console
---------------------------------------------------------------
App : app
Path: /var/www/html/cakephp/app/
---------------------------------------------------------------
Bake All
---------------------------------------------------------------
Possible Models based on your current database:
1. User
Enter a number from the list above,
type in the name of another model, or 'q' to exit  
[q] >

In my case I will type "1" for User and press Enter

[q] > 1

Baking model class for User...

Creating file /var/www/html/cakephp/app/Model/User.php
Wrote `/var/www/html/cakephp/app/Model/User.php`
PHPUnit is not installed. Do you want to bake unit test files anyway? (y/n)

Now press y for yes and press Enter. Following Output will be shown by the console

You can download PHPUnit from http://phpunit.de

Baking test fixture for User...

Creating file /var/www/html/cakephp/app/Test/Fixture/UserFixture.php
Wrote `/var/www/html/cakephp/app/Test/Fixture/UserFixture.php`
Bake is detecting possible fixtures...

Baking test case for User Model ...

Creating file /var/www/html/cakephp/app/Test/Case/Model/UserTest.php
Wrote `/var/www/html/cakephp/app/Test/Case/Model/UserTest.php`

Baking controller class for Users...

Creating file /var/www/html/cakephp/app/Controller/UsersController.php
Wrote `/var/www/html/cakephp/app/Controller/UsersController.php`
PHPUnit is not installed. Do you want to bake unit test files anyway? (y/n)
[y] >

Now again press y and hit Enter, following output will be shown:

You can download PHPUnit from http://phpunit.de
Bake is detecting possible fixtures...

Baking test case for Users Controller ...

Creating file /var/www/html/cakephp/app/Test/Case/Controller/UsersControllerTest.php
Wrote `/var/www/html/cakephp/app/Test/Case/Controller/UsersControllerTest.php`

Baking `index` view file...

Creating file /var/www/html/cakephp/app/View/Users/index.ctp
Wrote `/var/www/html/cakephp/app/View/Users/index.ctp`

Baking `view` view file...

Creating file /var/www/html/cakephp/app/View/Users/view.ctp
Wrote `/var/www/html/cakephp/app/View/Users/view.ctp`

Baking `add` view file...

Creating file /var/www/html/cakephp/app/View/Users/add.ctp
Wrote `/var/www/html/cakephp/app/View/Users/add.ctp`

Baking `edit` view file...

Creating file /var/www/html/cakephp/app/View/Users/edit.ctp
Wrote `/var/www/html/cakephp/app/View/Users/edit.ctp`

Bake All complete
amuk@amuk:/var/www/html/cakephp/app$

All done!. Now you will see Model, View and Controller for User has been made . On web interface go to "http://localhost/cakephp/users" and in my case I see page has been created where users will be listed and you can click on the "New User" menu to create new users. So you see how fast it is to create model, views and controller.

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