Thursday 28 November 2013

5 Do’s of CakePHP Web Development That A Developer Usually Bypasses

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Most developers are confident of being 100% familiarized with each part of CakePHP Website Development. Actually, developers are well known with the development process. But, many of them actually don’t aware from what they should need to do during project development process. This post explains five such things which every developer should remember at the time of development:

Web standards
Web standards are made to provide the quality, movability, availability and usability to your application. When we ignore these standards, it impacts the application process adversely. Your applications must be in compliance with these web standards or should be W3C validated. Therefore, follow the standards for all web programs so that you don't repent in future advantages.

URL Optimization
Search engine Optimization (SEO) is a crucial factor of the online accessibility of each website and URLs play a vital role in building a site SEO-friendly. While working, developers normally forget to optimize the URLs structure that suits for search engines. So, don’t leave the site URLs without optimization. Always optimize the URL structures of your CakePHP website by including all necessary keywords.

Organize Content
Website content is a significant part as it attracts several customers and it should be organized orderly on a site. So, don’t ignore the elements like titles, sub-titles, paragraphs, keywords and bullets to include as it impacts website traffic flow.  Also check the grammatical mistakes twice to make your content error prone. Assure that your placement of content should be at right place where it best suits and describes application functionality.

Application Testing
Don't leave your site before testing your application. It is important for CakePHP developers to understand that testing application is a part of their work regime. If they don’t test application, it may be possible that workflow of an app will corrupt, which impact adversely on your site performance. Therefore, test all necessary parameters including performance, quality, bug-issues, and security of application. Other solution is to hand over the task to a quality-assurance team in your company.

Test Coding
It is important to test the code once written as it helps to miss the last minute hassle. Most developers don't check codes before leaving the website. It puts them sometimes in trouble at important occasions. So, it is recommended to grasp the importance of checking and re-checking their code.

Thursday 14 November 2013

Learn Cakephp from Tutorials



Cakephp is a fast growing framework that makes website development faster and easier for php programmers. Its MVC platform is a great help to developers. It’s already in-built view structure and functional library is making PHP popular among other programming languages.
For beginners, it is really a tedious task to find right assistance for learning Cakephp from the basics. So, here I collect some very good tutorials and sources to learn and understand Cakephp framework thoroughly.

Online Books and PDFs
The very first tutorial for every beginner should start with is the e-book suggested by cakephp.org itself. It is one of the best books to start learning basics of Cakephp. 

Gobookee is another good place to find several e-books (free or paid both) in Cakephp category. One best thing is that if you have any good tutorial to share then you can also submit it here.   

Video Tutorials
Video is the best tutorial to learn and apply Cakephp phenomenon itself. Official Cakephp channel is very popular among beginners as well as experts. Here all topics related to Cakephp development, issues and solutions discussed by qualified experts.

Andrew Spark is another known name that is very experienced and knowledgeable tutor. He explained Cakephp fundamentals and applications in his video series in a very simple and understandable manner.  

Cakephp Blogs
James Fairhurst explained all the Cakephp methods from installation to code snippets in his articles and tutorials. His famous series of tutorials is “Full cake 1.2 App (Part 1 to 12)”.

I highly recommend “Nuts and Bolts of Cakephp” blog to read and learn tips and tricks of Cakephp to practice at home. Also you can find new updates and code snippets for several issues like session storage, firebug logging etc.

Cakephp Cheat sheet
I always prefer to carry a cheatsheet to remind code snippets for particular function quickly. It saves time, makes process faster and people can find a lot of code snippets for Cakephp platform at one place. So, here is one of the best online cheat sheets to learn and use several coding actions and data definitions.

Forums and Q/A websites
If you don’t able to search and find the solution of your queries, you can ask from experts in different communities and Q&A websites. Just post your question and get your answer in no time. Forums and Q&A websites are best to even ask some silly questions which you can’t able to discuss with your friends and tutor. Simply first register an account on forum site and post a new thread with your queries. Here people are always available to help beginners and experienced too. Some popular sites are: