Is there a CakePHP offline manual

You can download CakePHP's manual from their website:

http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/

In the welcome section you will find two download links :

Download the documentation:

epub format = http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/_downloads/en/CakePHPCookbook.epub
original source = https://github.com/cakephp/docs

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