Tagged ‘php frameworks’

One thing that many people fail to notice about CakePHP is how FAST it makes development. The amount of time it takes to make a proof of concept is far shorter than if you were to use a configuration over convention framework like CodeIgniter. To show just how fast and simple getting an application up and running in CakePHP is, I’ve gone with the good ol’ Poll application. Read on to see the step by step process.

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Today, I’ve been having to edit a site that I made a year and a half or more ago. I’ve only been in this industry for 2 1/2 years or so, so I still have a long way to go before I can put the sad code I made back in the day behind me for good. To say the least, editing the code on this site has been a nightmare. It was like I had multiple personalities, and each one took 30 minutes to work on the site at a time before passing the reigns to another. Read on to see some of the dreadful mistakes I made.

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Before I continue with writing this article, take note that I myself am not the most experienced or skilled of developers. I have only been doing Web development for just over two years, and as such have not been able to delve into it as much as many other veteran developers may have. However, I have always tried to make sure that I learn the best practises from the start so that I do not learn bad habits early on. As such, I have found many routines that I have either already implemented, or soon will be implementing in my development projects, and because of this, I can tell what other developers are, and are not, doing enough of. Read on to see what they are.

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After a short while, developers will find that they prefer some tools more than others. Similarly, I have a group of tools and frameworks which I have found to be suited to my personal development environment which I use on a daily basis. Read on to see what they are and be sure to outline any tools that you have found to be helpful in your Web development projects in the comments.

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Recently I’ve been using CakePHP quite a bit, but prior to the large projects I had to undertake, because of how the projects I’d worked on previously had been somewhat small in scale, I didn’t have much experience using it in more irregular scenarios. Lately, however, I’ve been pushed a lot more and have been thrown in to the deep end if you will, of CakePHP. Dealing with topics like caching, security, and integration with APIs and vendors, I learnt a lot in a short amount of time. Therefore, I’m going to list a few of the things that I found helpful, so that maybe I can save someone some time in searching for the answers that took me long enough on my own.

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With the popularity of PHP frameworks increasing steadily each day, I thought that I could give my own two cents regarding which ones I prefer to use, and which scenarios I find each one to be ideal for.

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