PHP Web Development

In the recent years PHP has evolved to be an object ori­ented Pro­gram­ming (OOP) lan­guage with new rules and functionalities,which are typ­i­cal of more main­stream pro­gram­ming lan­guages such as C++ and Java.

This has prompted more and more PHP Devel­op­ers to develop frame­works to cre­ate a struc­ture for the php lan­guage. Many frame­works are avail­able with their own advan­tages and lim­i­ta­tions. Sam­i­fLabs is the PHP devel­op­ment Com­pany in India which has got wide exper­tise in frame­work based web appli­ca­tion devel­op­ment. We use CakePHP frame­work quite exten­sively for rapid web appli­ca­tion development.

CakePHP is one of the most pop­u­lar frame­works for PHP devel­op­ment. CakePHP pro­vides an exten­si­ble archi­tec­ture for devel­op­ing, main­tain­ing, and deploy­ing appli­ca­tions. CakePHP reduces devel­op­ment costs and helps devel­op­ers write less code.

CakePHP is based on an MVC archi­tec­ture that is both pow­er­ful and easy to under­stand. MVC (con­trollers, mod­els and views ) pat­tern helps sep­a­rate pre­sen­ta­tion from busi­ness logic. In an MVC appli­ca­tion all Web requests are han­dled by con­trollers. A “con­troller” is respon­si­ble for inter­pret­ing the user’s request and inter­act­ing with the application’s busi­ness objects in order to ful­fill the request. These busi­ness objects are rep­re­sented as the “model” part of the MVC. Mod­els are active rep­re­sen­ta­tions of data­base tables: they can con­nect to your data­base, query it (if instructed to do so by a con­troller) and save data to the database.Based on the out­come of the request exe­cu­tion, the con­troller decides which “view” to for­ward the model to. The view uses the data in the model to cre­ate the pre­sen­ta­tion that is returned to the user.

Some of the key fea­tures of CakePHP are:

• Com­pat­i­ble with PHP4 as well as PHP5
• Rapid Devel­op­ment: build apps faster than ever before>
• Cake is easy to under­stand and sets the indus­try stan­dards in secu­rity, ses­sion han­dling, among other things
• fast, flex­i­ble tem­plat­ing (PHP syn­tax with helper methods)
• OO: whether you are a sea­soned OO pro­gram­mer or a begin­ner you will feel comfortable
• Cool Scaf­fold­ing: It is a great way of get­ting the early parts of devel­op­ing a web appli­ca­tion started
• View helpers for AJAX, Javascript, HTML forms
• Pow­er­fully Flex­i­ble Data Val­i­da­tion Features
• Apply­ing ajax tech­nol­ogy is a cake­walk here.

Please feel free to Con­tact us for more infor­ma­tion about our CakePHP Devel­op­ment Services