CakePHP

CakePHP Oursourcing

IBCSCorp.com offers CakePHP Programming Services.  We provide CakePHP Application Development Framework development services for direct clients, and also provide CakePHP outsourcing services to other development companies.  Because CakePHP is a relatively new product, development companies from anywhere in the world are welcome to use our offshoring or outsourcing services to complete their CakePHP development projects.

PHP Frameworks

Unlike other development platforms, PHP has vast number of open-source web frameworks that follow MVC (Model-View-Controller) design pattern. CakePHP, PHPOnTrax, CodeIgniter, Zend Framework are some of the more popular frameworks. Each has distinct advantages and disadvantages when considering the whole application development process. For example CodeIgniter is famous for its small footprint and fast performance. On the other hand Zend Framework is popular for its loosely coupled, rich set of modules/libraries. Therefore it is possible only to utilize only the required modules within your application. Even MVC is a separate module for Zend Framework.

Because they all have different strengths and weaknesses, electing a framework for your application should be done carefully. Application performance, development time/cost and learning curve are some of the facts to be considered when making this decision.

Why CakePHP?

Relative to other frameworks, CakePHP has a lower learning curve. Once CakePHP is properly setup in your environment, you can start application development even without referencing the documentation. CakePHP’s error messages and notices are self explanatory. So you are getting not only the problem definition but the solution also with them. However, even though it is easy to get started, sound knowledge in the framework is necessary to get the best out of CakePHP.

CakePHP follows convention over configuration paradigm, this reduces or eliminates lot of complexities that might arise in later stages of the application development process. Also it has a considerable affect on reducing development time as well.

CakePHP reduces development time in several ways. It provides all the common functionalities that require in web development through ready-made components. For example you can develop an Ajax enabled web application using Cake’s built in Ajax component, even without writing a single line of Javascript. Object-relational mapping (ORM) layer of CakePHP clearly separates RDBMS from your application and makes your source code almost or completely free from traditional SQL queries.

There are various facts that make CakePHP unique among others, but as a summery CakePHP considerably increases the productivity through simplifying the development process and it is beneficial for both developers and product clients by reducing the time and cost.

Our Experience

As a development company, we have been involved in developments with CakePHP since its version 1.1. MyActTV is a site done in Cake 1.1 and it handles large volume of Video data.

Currently we are utilizing version 1.3 in our new developments. This is to acquire the new features in upcoming release and minimize upgrading turnover when version CakePHP 2.0 is released. The site, agent.freedomtravel4you.com is one of the main sites we have done with CakePHP 1.3. Additionally this is a good example that demonstrates how to partially integrate CakePHP with your projects that already use different technologies in other areas.

The main complain against CakePHP is its low performance relative to other available frameworks. There are several reasons behind this. Rather than just providing development model, Cake handles a lot of lower level functionalities and so increases the productivity while simplifying development task. On the other hand, CakePHP still supports PHP 4 and 5 versions. In future releases PHP 4 support will be dropped and this will reduce the work load on framework itself.

There are various techniques which can be applied to improve the application performance. Some of them are general techniques used with PHP and some are directly related to CakePHP itself. In addition to techniques such as APC cache, Memcached ; good programming techniques in CakePHP definitely affects application performance.

CakePHP natively supports the testing framework SimpleTest. As we encourage Test Driven Development (TDD) within our organization, CakePHP is really handy due to this reason.

Why use IBCSCorp CakePHP Outsourcing Services?

Conclusion

Different projects have different characteristics. So rather than always using a single framework, we recommend to select a framework that best suits your project. CakePHP is a good option because of its capability in handling small to large scale, database driven web applications, while increasing productivity.

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If you have any doubt in selecting CakePHP for your upcoming project or have been facing any issues with your existing Cake application, we are here to help you. Simply contact us.