Development - PHP Frameworks

Links - PHP MVC Frameworks

billb — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 04:19:15 -0700

Oct 8 2009: Are MVC frameworks worth the performance hit and hassle ? See Damn Small PHP Frameworks. Because size does matter. Make sure to read comments too.

Feb 10 2009: added PHPulse

Good list of PHP frameworks. Are they all MVC ?

Links - CakePHP Content Management Systems

billb — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:56:26 -0700

Update Jan 24 2009: The new PageBakery repository is showing some activity !
Update Dec 4 2008: Mambo 5 movements
Update Sept 19 2008: Wildflower impressions and links

Doing the Mambo

The latest movements in the Mambo 5 project ( Nov 25th 2008 ) -

Links - CodeIgniter

billb — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:03:04 -0600

Updated Oct 29 2008: added 68KB, now BSD

I am not sure why it took me this long to get around to CodeIgniter ... it's a worthy and mature PHP framework but I gravitated to CakePHP for some reason. Maybe it's the CodeIgniter licensing of EllisLab, Inc..

Links - CakePHP

billb — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:54:21 -0600

Updated Sept 28 2008: fixups and links

From the CakePHP project site at ohloh.net:

Cake is a rapid development framework for PHP which uses commonly known design patterns like ActiveRecord, Association Data Mapping, Front Controller and MVC. Our primary goal is to provide a structured framework that enables PHP users at all levels to rapidly develop robust web applications, without any loss to flexibility.

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Links - Web Portals

billb — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 12:09:32 -0600

Not much yet.

The Java marketing machine has worked assiduously to associate the concept of a portal with the Java language, but there is no real dependency between the function of a portal and its implementation language. See the section for CakePHP CMS.

Some interesting questions and comments about portals.

Link - Learning from the CakePHP source code

billb — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 14:54:13 -0600

Excellent discussion of CakePHP core classes, particularly the Dispatcher class.

Link - IBM on CakePHP

billb — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:44:02 -0600

Cook up Web sites fast with CakePHP

Adding related information and services

Bake bigger and better with CakePHP

Use Sanitize for your protection

Use CakePHP's Session and Request Handler components

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