About the Tutorial

LogexController.php
file at 
src/Controller/LogexController.php
. Copy the 
following code in the controller file. 
src/Controller/LogexController.php 
namespace App\Controller; 
use App\Controller\AppController; 
use Cake\Log\Log; 
class LogexsController extends AppController{ 
public function index(){ 
/*The first way to write to log file.*/ 
Log::write('debug',"Something didn't work."); 
/*The second way to write to log file.*/ 
$this->log("Something didn't work.",'debug'); 
} 
} 
?> 
Create a directory 
Logexs
at 
src/Template
and under that directory create a 
View
file 
called 
index.ctp
. Copy the following code in that file. 
src/Template/Logexs/index.ctp 
Something is written in log file. Check log file logs\debug.log 
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Execute the above example by visiting the following URL. 
http://localhost:85/CakePHP/logex
 

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Output 
Upon execution, you will receive the following output. 

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CakePHP provides various in built tags to handle HTML forms easily and securely. Like 
many other PHP frameworks, major elements of HTML are also generated using CakePHP. 
Following are the various functions used to generate HTML elements.
The following functions are used to generate select options. 
Syntax 
_selectOptions( array 
$elements
array(), array 
$parents
array(), 
boolean 
$showParents
null, array 
$attributes
array() ) 
Parameters 

Elements to format 

Parents for OPTGROUP 

Whether to show parents 

HTML attributes