A skeleton for creating web applications with CakePHP 5.x.

The framework source code can be found here: cakephp/cakephp.

1. clone the project skeleton (if you read this you already did it):)
2. If you want to develop packages too copy composer.local.example.json to composer.local.json and create a dev folder next to your rpject. it will symlink the packages from there.
3. Download Composer or update composer self-update.
4. Run composer install.
5. rename the app_local.example.php to app_local.php
6. start the cake server bin/cake server -p 8765
7. visit http://localhost:8765/install to see the welcome page.

Since this skeleton is a starting point for your application and various files would have been modified as per your needs, there isn't a way to provide automated upgrades, so you have to do any updates manually.

Read and edit the environment specific config/app_local.php and set up the 'Datasources' and any other configuration relevant for your application. Other environment agnostic settings can be changed in config/app.php.

The app skeleton uses Milligram (v1.3) minimalist CSS framework by default. You can, however, replace it with any other library or custom styles.