My client wants to Migrating their custom developed php project to cake php framework. But, as of now i have only a bit of knowledge in CAKE. can anyone please let me know where do i get started CAKE php. i have already installed CAKE in my system
Where do you get started? Probably on the CakePHP website?
Seriously, watch some screencasts, download some example apps and mess around with them.
CakePHP has a sweet steep learning curve. I recommend to go with the new 1.3 version.
It is easy to start with the CakePHP Book and the API documentation. When in doubt, just look into the source code, it's all just PHP! Google should be also a good friend of yours. However CakePHP is "just" a programming framework, you must know PHP, ORM, MVC and similar concepts in advance.
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I am a newbie in PHP Frameworks and would like to share/discuss some experience with you guys. Getting straight to the point, what I understand till now (from a newby stand of point is this):
CodeIgniter + Doctrine + Twigg = Symfony:
Zend + Doctrine + Twigg = Symfony
Symfony 2, uses php5.3 (I realy like namespace stuff remind me .Net)
but it lucks of tutorials right now (only partial jobeet translation to ver2)
I enjoy CI community and noumerous tutorials, plus using Doctrine + Twigg I could achive the same with Symfony.
Zend is more enterprise with lots of tutorials, but more difficult to grasp than CI.
So the question is should I start with CI + Doctrine or learn directly Symfony2?
Am I correct with the above assumptions?
Start with CodeIgniter if you are new to frameworks. Both Symfony and ZF have a greater learning curve and if you're not familiar with some concepts you might get fustrated in the beginning with the more complex frameworks .
I would suggest you to go with Symfony 2 since it has got lots of good stuff built around it. Take a look at this article http://www.phparch.com/2010/02/symfony-2-benchmarks/.
Hope this link is very useful on learning Symfony 2. It's a tutorials based on days (21) teaching you how to create a calendar website. Good luck.
http://symfony.com/blog/do-you-know-jobeet
More:
http://symfony2easy.blogspot.com/
http://www.dobervich.com/2011/03/03/symfony2-blog-application-tutorial-part-i-project-setup/, http://www.dobervich.com/2011/03/05/symfony2-blog-application-tutorial-part-ii-the-data-model/, http://www.dobervich.com/2011/03/09/symfony2-blog-application-tutorial-part-iii-routing-controllers-and-templates/
it really adds up to what your requirements are.
Symfony is great, though my only bash on it is that it requires PHP 5.3, which is great, but make sure your host has 5.3 support. Also the issue of using CLI bugs me.
CodeIgniter 2 on the other hand requires 5.1.6, which is good for me as my host is still on 5.2; I also like how small CI was compared to Zend or Symfony. Now like you i like some of symfony's components and i use 2 of them (swift mailer & twig) on my CI install. doesnt mean you should just junk ci and go symfony. CI is built to be a stepping stone framework that you can build on. Symfony to me is a full-fledged framework with everything and the kitchen sink.
having said all that, not all frameworks are created equal. I use CI for one project and Kohana for another. Kohana offered me something i liked that CI didnt do and thats fine.
I think you should look at the different frameworks out there, some are full featured, some are bare-bones and allow you to grow with your needs.
You may quick start with Cygnite PHP Framework. Simple yet powerful tool to build your next project. It gives you exceptional performance. Check benchmark results:
Performance benchmark results
I'm embarking on a very big exercise to build a CMS in php. It's actually my attempt to learn PHP in a fun (and hardcore) way coming from a Java background. Java is all object oriented so oop is in my blood, but I'm finding that OOP hasn't made it yet to PHP. Most PHP is still being written today the old way without the new concepts.
I'm trying to find an example PHP CMS that's written as object oriented. I hear Xoops is. Any others you know of? or any OOP libraries in general that you know of that could help me in a CMS project.
I would suggest symfony framework as it is well documented and functional framework that helped building many web applications.
http://www.symfony-project.org/
PHP5 is pretty OOP. Look for CMSes and frameworks that only work on PHP5. For example, Kohana
Concrete5 is a pretty complex OOP based CMS. Might be a harsh start but I've learned a lot by working with it.
again, +1 for symfony, but this is a large project and getting to know symfony will consume most of your time, yet if you want to dive in, its documentation is really great.
since you are trying to build your own CMS, get started with easy to grasp frameworks and build upon them. Don't waste your time on everything that has been already done. I recommend you Codeigniter MVC Framework http://codeigniter.com and for CMS, PyroCMS http://pyrocms.com which is built upon codeigniter is cool. Codeigniter is really easy to get along, and documentation is very neat and clean.
Further, if you like to start with a simple php framework, here's what Tyrehall has done, http://github.com/tylerhall/simple-php-framework . This project can act as a base for your CMS
No one seems to have mentioned Kohana the PHP 5 only framework.
Kohana has a pretty active and very helpful community to back it up (#kohana on freenode in particular).
edit: Upon closer inspection I see someone has already mentioned Kohana.
what you will notice is that what is more important to most cms (and framework) developers is MVC pattern implementation. Most MVC implementations in php do in fact use oop practices (some stricter than others)
+1 for symfony, and another I'd like to recommend is Kohana (built on CodeIgniter)
Also have a look at their forums, as both already have a cms or 10 built using these frameworks.
Using these frameworks brings you about 60% there, as a lot of the rudimentary tasks are taken care of.
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also remebered this one: fatfree framework it's quite lightweight: http://fatfree.sourceforge.net/
Have a look at Phundament 3.
Phundament 3 is an application foundation built upon a set if independent Yii modules and extensions such as user, rights, yiiext, gtc, ckeditor, jquery-file-upload, p3widgets and p3media.
The combination of p3widgets and p3media provides basic content management system (CMS) features, like dynamic widget creation and file management.
Combined in ckeditor, p3media acts as a ckfinder plugin which gives you the full power of HTML and media files for content creation via p3widgets.
It comes with a very minimalistic setup which integrates perfectly into an Yii web application skeletion and installs with one single command.
as some folks suggested here, you should start with Codeigniter because it's really easy to dive in. Its documentation is very well structured and easy to read. But I think Codeigniter seems to be very old now.
What I really recommend to you is Laravel. There's another Framework you should look into, that's FuelPHP. But for me, Laravel has absolutely changed to way I'm writing my PHP code. It is the best framework I've ever seen in my life. It's so elegant that you will instantly fall in love with.
If Laravel suits you, I recommend you to follow this online course by Jeffrey Way # Tutsplus.com. You will love it!
Good luck :)
Have you seen CakePHP?
http://cakephp.org/
Its a MVC framework for PHP. Its pretty robust and can be used in a fully object oriented manner.
i am looking for a new php(5) framework it must be lightweight(x<500kb), oop, have orm, active record built in, simple to learn, fast to use, active community and dev.
I need it for small, personal app development.
My php skills are quite low and i have .net background. I have previously used LightVc+cough and codeIgnitor php frameworks.
There are so-many frameworks there and it is quite hard to find the best.
I have checked the other threads here but they are to old to consider sustainable.
Thanks for your time.
I think you dig out the http://www.phpframeworks.com/. It has details about each and every accepted framework.
Code Igniter is very popular and also supports PHP4: http://codeigniter.com/
Unlike .NET and miscellaneous other programming languages, you really don't need a framework to write a PHP application. In fact, I'd advise against it. Learn the language, not a framework.
For someone with low PHP skills I'd say codeigniter although it doesn't have ORM built-in (it has a sort of lightweight active record class), but there are tutorials on how to use Doctrine (a good PHP ORM solution) with it.
However if you want a PHP5 only framework (as in written to take full advantage of PHP5) then I'd suggest looking at Kohana (a PHP5 only fork of codeigniter), Yii or Zend framework.
I'm an advanced designer, but also starting out a career in development: I'm a PHP intermediate user. I (unfortunately) learnt procedural development, and not OOP.
My current project is a multi-user game web-app and I was developing procedurally only for my Boss to insist that it has to be OOP, so I needed to start learning OOP (I believe I am a relatively fast learner). A friend advised me to just learn a lightweight PHP framework and move on from there, since the project must be launched in less than three weeks (I have roughly 2 weeks left now)!
After viewing a lot of articles comparing them, I ended up with CodeIgniter, Kohana, and Yii based on the efficiency and the lightweight-edness. I am not quite used to command-line instructions like it's done in Yii, so I had to drop it off to save my time :(. Kohana looks very interesting, but I am new to the PHP5 and OOP it uses and there's VERY LITTLE help on Kohana, I even tried to buy books but there are none. CodeIgniter has a lot of helpful material, but it has no official Authentication module with Access Control, and the three open-source modules I have tested did not integrate well with other modules I am using.
Please can anyone recommend another OOP PHP framework with a quick learning curve, or provide some pointers to resolve the problems I had with those 3 frameworks tested, or should I just develop the entire application out of the box after studying OOP extensively? Thanks for your time.
There are frameworks, that provide an authentication natively but there is no way, that you can learn those in two weeks AND finish your project.
CodeIgniter was the first framework I learned and it was the perfect choice for me: The documentation is really good: reading the documentation enabled me to fully understand the MVC pattern. If I was in your position I would definitely use codeigniter and integrate one of the many free authentication plugins discussed here.
After you finished your project, you can go on and start learning symfony and Zend Framework, depending on your preferences.
I am in the phase of learning Zend Framework for PHP development, I have been doing 'dirty' PHP programming for about 2 years now and I have learnt quite a bit from my mistakes.
I have been introduced to Ruby On Rails, it is a great framework and Ruby is quite an interesting language too, but not everyone wants their web sites to be in RoR, at least not all of my clients.
Hence as a result I do a lot of PHP. Having worked on RoR, I find Zend Framework to provide very similar functionality and environment and hence I am really excited about the same.
However I am interested to know if there are any 'generator' scripts that help you along the process to generate / automate common tasks such as project structure creation, model creation, controller creation, just like those in RoR?
If such a thing already exists, great, otherwise I will go ahead and build such scripts myself as I am very certain they will come in very handy, especially for me.
Zend Tool is your friend!
i have made several code snippets and file types in editor ( netbeans ) to help me with automation.
You could look into zend studio that has a built in integration for zend framework that work quite well, but its commercial and would mean switching IDE's wich is always a burdain
I am working on a code generator for Zend Framework that could be useful to you. It is based off of the Qcubed code generator. Check it out at http://clintberry.com/2010/08/zend-framework-code-generator-with-scaffolding/
This is the best tutorial I found. It explains how to start using Zend Framework step-by-step
Zend Framework Tutorial