Wednesday 12 March 2014

Why Cakephp Framework is Best Choice for Website Development?

Cakephp is an open source programming language that helps to develop efficient and potential websites and its applications. Now-a-days, it is the first choice for most developers and programmers to develop a website fast. Now question arises, if there are so many other PHP frameworks available for web development, why several developers and programmers still trust on Cakephp? So, here are the features that make Cakephp highly noticeable from other frameworks:

Open Source

Open source in terms of computing is stands for: 


Similarly, Cakephp is an open source website development platform that ensures users for free availability and modification of code. Many cakephp developers use it to develop customized CMS and websites. One main advantage is most of the big Cakephp Communities like Github offers updates, codes and plug-ins for free use.

Model-View-Controller (MVC) Architecture


Cakephp is based on the Model-View-Controller pattern that isolates the business layer from the presentation layer.  Therefore, model is responsible for database connectivity and saving data to the database. The view processes data in supported format and layout. The controller handles the user request. 

Code Reusability

As we discussed previously Cakephp is an open source framework, hence several communities provides freely available codes which is reusable and can be modified. Thus, it makes CakePHP website development faster as CakePHP developers can use already existed code. It also increases efforts and potential of developers regarding optimized logic and structure in developing the web applications for a website.

CRUD

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CRUD stands for Create, Read, Update and Delete. CakePHP provides CRUD concept based on Active Record design pattern. The Active Record design is an approach to access data from database. It’s built-in to wrap the database table and row in a php class itself. So, CRUD is an easy act for cakephp programmers to create, modify and delete entities from the system.

Easy to configure and Built-in Libraries

The best part of Cakephp framework is easy configuration and installation. You just install it from Cakephp.org and use it with some initial modifications like database connectivity and change in security files. It saves developers time configuring the CakePHP as it can automatically detect most features and settings. It has many in-built validation rules or libraries that can be easily used for particular uses.

Monday 3 March 2014

News: Cakephp 2.4.6 released on March 02, 2014


Cakephp core team has released the new Cakephp version 2.4.6 on March 02, 2014. People, who are struggling with previous Cakephp version’s issues, now can download this bug-fix Cakephp 2.4.6 release from Githhub.com/cakephp .

Some of the changes are given below:
  • Extract task handles quotes inside validation messages correctly.
  • Model::field() now works with fields translated with TranslateBehavior.
  • Core tests are no longer part of PEAR packages. This solves issues when the pear package is used as a composer dependency, and an incorrect classmap was generated.
  • FormHelper::checkbox() can now generate checkboxes for empty values.
  • Postgres can now convert boolean fields to integer when using SchemaShell.
  • Changes to how ID's are generated for radio inputs were reverted. These changes caused issues in some applications.
  • API documentation has been improved.
  • Reverse routing for prefixed actions was improved.
  • Temporary associations setup with TranslateBehavior::bindTranslation() are now correctly unbound & restored.
  • Clearing data with MemcacheEngine will now work with greater than 100 slabs.
  • Validation::decimal() now works with localized floats.
  • Invalid data in datetime pickers is now correctly handled.
  • FormHelper::postLink() and FormHelper::postButton() now handle N dimensional data.