Cake PHP Development

What is CakePHP? Why Use it?

CakePHP is a free, open-source, rapid development framework for PHP. It’s a foundational structure for programmers to create web applications. Our primary goal is to enable you to work in a structured and rapid manner–without loss of flexibility.

CakePHP takes the monotony out of web development. We provide you with all the tools you need to get started coding what you really need to get done: the logic specific to your application. Instead of reinventing the wheel every time you sit down to a new project, check out a copy of CakePHP and get started with the real guts of your application.

CakePHP has an active developer team and community, bringing great value to the project. In addition to keeping you from wheel-reinventing, using CakePHP means your application’s core is well tested and is being constantly improved.

Here’s a quick list of features you’ll enjoy when using CakePHP :
	Active, friendly community	View Helpers for AJAX, JavaScript, HTML Forms and more
	Flexible licensing	Email, Cookie, Security, Session, and Request Handling Components
	Compatible with versions 4 and 5 of PHP	Flexible ACL
	Integrated CRUD for database interaction	Data Sanitization
	Application scaffolding	Flexible Caching
	Code generation	Localization
	MVC architecture	Works from any web site directory, with little to no Apache
	Request dispatcher with clean, custom URLs and routes	configuration involved
	Built-in validation	CakePHP is an open-source PHP development framework inspired
	Fast and flexible templating (PHP syntax, with helpers)	by Ruby on Rails framework.

This framework enables you to work in a structured manner, without loss of flexibility. Cake PHP is distributed under MIT license, which is a free license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Specifically, it is a GPL-compatible permissive license, meaning that it permits reuse within proprietary software on the condition that the license is distributed with that software.

CakePHP offers the following key features: active, friendly community; flexible licensing; compatibility with PHP4 and PHP5; integrated CRUD for database interaction and simplified queries; application scaffolding; Model View Controller (MVC) Architecture; request dispatcher with good looking, custom URLs; built-in validation, flexible view caching; security, Session and Request Handling Components.

What is MVC architecture?
MVC (Model View Controller) is a commonly used and powerful architecture for GUIs. MVC is a way of breaking an application in three different parts: the model, the view and the controller. MVC was originally developed to map the traditional input, processing, output roles into the GUI realm:

Input --> Processing --> Output
Controller --> Model --> View

Let`s explain what every term means :
	The Model represents enterprise data and the business rules that govern updates and access to this data. The Model also
	encapsulates application state, responds to state queries and notifies views of changes.
	The View renders the contents of a model and also requests updates of the models. Another feature is that it can access
	enterprise data through the model and specifies how that data should be presented.
	The Controller processes and responds to events, typically user actions and may invoke changes on the model.

Understanding Model-View-Controller
Figure: 1: A Basic MVC Request

CakePHP follows the MVC software design pattern. Programming using MVC separates your application into three main parts:
1. The Model represents the application data
2. The View renders a presentation of model data
3. The Controller handles and routes requests made by the client

Figure : 1 shows an example of a bare-bones MVC request in CakePHP. To illustrate, assume a client named "Ricardo" just clicked on the “Buy a Custom Cake Now!” link on your application’s home page

	Ricardo clicks the link pointing to http://www.example.com/cakes/buy, and his browser makes a request to your web server.
	The dispatcher checks the request URL (/cakes/buy), and hands the request to the correct controller.
	The controller performs application specific logic. For example, it may check to see if Ricardo has logged in.
	The controller also uses models to gain access to the application’s data. Models usually represent database tables, but they could also
	represent LDAP entries, RSS feeds, or files on the system. In this example, the controller uses a model to fetch Ricardo’s last purchases
	from the database.
	Once the controller has worked its magic on the data, it hands it to a view. The view takes this data and gets it ready for presentation
	to the client. Views in CakePHP are usually in HTML format, but a view could just as easily be a PDF, XML document, or JSON object
	depending on your needs.
	Once the view has used the data from the controller to build a fully rendered view, the content of that view is returned to
	Ricardo’s browser.

Benefits
Why use MVC? Because it is a tried and true software design pattern that turns an application into a maintainable, modular, rapidly developed package. Crafting application tasks into separate models, views, and controllers makes your application very light on its feet. New features are easily added, and new faces on old features are a snap. The modular and separate design also allows developers and designers to work simultaneously, including the ability to rapidly prototype. Separation also allows developers to make changes in one part of the application without affecting others.

If you've never built an application this way, it takes some time getting used to, but we're confident that once you've built your first application using CakePHP, you won't want to do it any other way.

Basic Principles of CakePHP
The CakePHP framework provides a robust base for your application. It can handle every aspect, from the user’s initial request all the way to the final rendering of a web page. And since the framework follows the principles of MVC, it allows you to easily customize and extend most aspects of your application.

The framework also provides a basic organizational structure, from filenames to database table names, keeping your entire application consistent and logical. This concept is simple but powerful. Follow the conventions and you’ll always know exactly where things are and how they’re organized.

CakePHP Development
Today people live fast life. Everyone wants to get job done instantly. Considering this mentality developers at Shah Net Technologies learn an open source that mimics the good aspects of Ruby and Rails terms as CakePHP. CakePHP breaks the monotony during development and offers tools and logics specific to the application and subsequently saves a lot up repetition in coding thus coder need not to reinvent same coding in new project.

Some more features included in the CakePHP development at Shah Net :
	CakePHP community at Shah Net Technologies is active, friendly and supportive one.
	No hidden charges or other methods of exploitation of customers found with CakePHP development at Shah Net Technologies because
	CakePHP have flexible licensing system so we can pass the sweet fruits to our patrons too.
	CakePHP development at Shah Net Technologies assures the compatibility with versions 4 and 5 of PHP.
	Application scaffolding is a rough structure for application. Put the scaffolding up first, then start bulking the application out and
	replacing the scaffolding with your own code. It’s getting something up and running quickly.
	The scaffolding will automatically detect the field sets and data types in your database and generate all the CRUD (Create, Read,
	Update, Delete) code at run time, so this avoid creating forms and can get a basic application up and running within short span.

Request dispatcher with clean, custom URLs and routes
	Built-in validation
	Fast and flexible templating (PHP syntax, with helpers)
	View Helpers for AJAX, JavaScript, and HTML Forms and for others too
	Email, Cookies, Security, Session, and Request Handling Components
	Flexible Access control lists (ACL)
	Data Sanitization
	Flexible Caching
	Localization
	Works from any web site directory, with little to no Apache configuration involved

CakePHP development at Shah Net Technologies provides frame work of a basic organizational structure, from filenames to database table names, keeping your entire application consistent and logical. This concept is simple but powerful. By following the conventions you’ll always know exactly where things are and how they’re organized.

CakePHP Application Development
CakePHP Development is a rapid open source development framework for PHP applications. There are numerous frameworks available on the internet with their own set of pros and cons. The CakePHP platform facilitates the development, maintenance, and final deployment of web applications with the help of a customizable architecture.

Shah Net has remarkable expertise in implementing projects using CakePHP.

CakePHP Applications
Shah Net frequently uses CakePHP to develop challenging and unique web applications. Shah Net’s working style has always been very flexible in order to come up with original solutions. Our developers always remain in step with new features of CakePHP and develop applications employing the latest features of the CakePHP framework. Therefore, are successfully using the new techniques designed by them to make CakePHP applications easy to use on a day-to-day basis.

Shah Net has been a pioneer in using CakePHP Application Development to create robust, high quality web solutions using trained teams of application developers. Our professionals always keep an eye on the current changes in prevailing technologies due to which they have been able to develop CakePHP applications that have withstood the test of time and change.

CakePHP has features like In-built Validation, View Helpers, Flexible Access control lists, Localization and very minimal server configuration requirements. These tools allow developers to rapidly develop quality applications. This is exactly what we do at Shah Net

Finally, we structure and organize the CakePHP application in an optimum fashion so making changes and upgrading applications becomes piece of cake.

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