First and foremost, happy holidays everyone. T’is the season of giving and that’s just what CakePHP has done. On christmas day, CakePHP has released version 1.2.0.4206_dev and what a release it was! Although I have to try out these new promised features, I really like what the cake team has done. They have addressed some requests for the framework by putting in commonly used components into the cake core.
- A better validations class
- Improvements to the Form helper
- Pagination! Finally 
- An email component
- Support for HTTP Auth
And a few other changes were made as well. While there are already existing components for paginaton, email, etc, made by the cake community, it’s good to see these cake supported components. They are such common components that I’d say most applications would rely on them and it’s good to have a framework with these features built-in.
Check out their official announcement at the cakephp website.
Have a happy new year everyone! I look forward to see the stable version of 1.2 in the new year
Here’s a pretty good article that Christine Anderssen of webpronews.com wrote on choosing cakePHP framework over other frameworks available out there.
The point is, the web developer is now really spoilt for choice. Which is a problem in itself, since having too much choice can leave you dithering between different options. This article is therefore about how I made my choice, which was CakePHP, and which factors I took into consideration.
Read the full article here.
A few months ago I decided to take my php programming to a whole new level and try a framework. There were a few that captured my interest. Symfony, Code Igniter, and CakePHP. I experimented with all 3. I really liked Code Igniter and CakePHP. Code Igniter seems to be very well documented which I felt CakePHP lacked, however, recently CakePHP has come out with The Bakery. This has helped create a more organized way for the community to contribute documentation, tutorials, etc to this framework.
I started getting more comfortable with CakePHP and have decided to make it my framework of choice. It seems to be coming along very well and the development team are extremely active in the usenet groups and IRC channel.
I wrote a very simple authentication component for the project along with a tutorial on how to use it. So if you decide to try out CakePHP for your next project and are looking for simple authentication, try it out.
You can get the component here: http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/130
The tutorial can be viewed here: http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/121
Lamest post ever.
I took down my previous blog and decided to work with wordpress for now. It just seems to be so feature-rich which I can’t really compete with right now. Maybe someday I’ll blog from my own self-made blog system, but for now I don’t see the need to.
Anyways, I’ll try to keep my posts on the topic of web development and design, forgive me in advance if I touch on other subjects.