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Zhen CRM: open-source CakePHP CRM application

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 04:27:04 +0000

We are pleased to announce the release of Zhen CRM, an open source CRM solution built on CakePHP.Project page: http://telerim.github.com/Zhen-CRM/GitHub project: https://github.com/telerim/Zhen-CRMWhile this does not have the complicated features of enterprise CRMs, it has the basic features that most small businesses could use - such as contacts, tasks, "deals" and a calendar.In contrast to th...

Creating Questions And Answers Application From Scratch With CakePHP

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:18:06 +0000

Recently, questions and answers applications are very popular. Among of them is a yahoo answer, stackoverflow and the famous one, quora. The application is very interesting because the user can ask about something, and other users can help other people with the answers. At a glance these application si similiar like forums, but some of them adding interesting features, such as the user can foll...

Creating a Micro Jobs Application from scratch in flat 1 month

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:31:52 +0000

We brainstormed a lot initially to figure out the right framework to ensure rapid development of the application and deployment ease. We were sure of only one thing at that time - application has to be developed in PHP or PHP based framework.

We have had some experience with Code Igniter and Cake PHP however it was not a touch decision to make which one to choose considering the advantages Cake...

Introducing Start Tutorial

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:02:34 +0000

[h3]Introduction[/h3]StarTutorial.com is a new teaching website where you can find useful tutorials of various topics. Currently its main focus is on CakePHP and JQuery. StarTutorial.com is up on 17 Aug 2010, and it is already published with 5 articles. [h3]Tools[/h3]Below are some tools I have used while building this site:[list][li]XAMPP - XAMPP is basically a web server package, consisting m...

Introducing Croogo CMS

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:06:21 +0000

A few of you may already know about this project, but I thought it would be better to let everyone in the CakePHP community know about it via The Bakery.[h3]The Beginning[/h3]Back in 2008, I started developing applications for clients in CakePHP. And most of the projects required basic CMS features like pages, blog, contact forms, user management, etc. I realized I was spending extra time by co...

How to build a Digg or Reddit clone with CakePHP

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 06:05:39 +0000

This is my first CakePHP application. Where to begin?[h4]Overall Concept[/h4]Users can share videos, news, or useful information . Unlike other popular social media applications, image submissions are not accepted. The site aims for more useful content and less humor.[quote]All of the front page content is determined by users like you, not some out-of-touch corporate fat cats. Once a new link i...

Tripeo - Reviews website powered by Cakephp

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:33:56 +0000

In the summer of '09 we decided to build an internal project to build an alternative revenue stream.[h3]Why Cakephp?[/h3]The MVC approach keeps code organized and cakephp helpers and features allow to rapidly deploy web applications.[h3]What is Tripeo?[/h3]Tripeo is a community for travellers to share their experiences and reviews for hotels, resorts, and accommodations.[h3]Things We Used[/h3]C...

unaneem.com : a community website built on CakePHP with extensive use of AJAX

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:34:30 +0000

[h3]Motivation[/h3][p]As a computer engineer, a little bit geeky I confess, I wanted to create my own business. I was very interested in the opportunities given by the web technologies. In 2007, I felt that I should take the opportunity to create a web 2.0 website. I came up with the idea of a community website were people would be able to share their favorite places and events and communicate ...

Create a simple game exhibition website with CakePHP in 3 weeks

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:41:59 +0000

[i]When I got the idea to build [url=http://www.popgames4u.com]PopGames4u.com[/url][/i], CakePHP was the final choice among several popular PHP Development Frameworks. Now, it's online and works well.[h3]Introduction[/h3][url=http://www.popgames4u.com]popgames4u.com[/url] is a game exhibition website. It lists the new and interesting games everyday for both PC and Mac platform, and online games...

Success story: Using CakePHP at the Instituto Nacional de Educacion Tecnologica.

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:37:43 +0000

[p][h3]Background and project objectives[/h3][/p][p]In mid 2008, at the â€œInstituto Nacional de EducaciÃ³n TecnolÃ³gicaâ€ we began to evaluate the performance of the management systems used by the organizationâ€™s Information Unit. Among other responsibilities, the Information Unit maintains the data of the Federal Register of Institutions of Professional Technical Education in accordance wit...

CDfuse.com: A Complete Rebuild with CakePHP

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:56:41 +0000

[h4]What is CDfuse.com?[/h4]CDfuse.com is a website dedicated to helping independent musicians promote and sell their music and merchandise online. A friend of mine came to me with the idea back in 2003 and we launched in January of 2004. A major refresh of the design and our feature set occurred in August of 2004 and that site has been our mainstay until this time.Over the next couple of years...

Got2BShoes.com - Intelligent Caching of Amazon's Product Advertising API

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:47:48 +0000

[h3]Introduction[/h3]As my first CakePHP project, [url=http://www.got2bshoes.com]Got2BShoes.com[/url] was definitely a learning experience. Knowing what I know now, I would have done a few things differently. However, I'm pretty happy with how it came out. In this article Iâ€™ll focus mostly on what I did to intelligently cache the Amazon Product Advertising API data.The overall concept of the ...

CakePHP In the Enterprise

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:59:56 +0000

UGR Works wanted the software to cater for the most common requirements of online retailers without, as much e-commerce software is, being clogged with additional features that are of no use to the majority of clients and simply serve to slow the software down. In addition, the e-commerce solution had to enable multiple store support for freelancers and agencies wishing to offer their clients a...

Order and time tracking system

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:13:57 +0000

We have a lot of orders coming in and out of the office, and many people are working on the same jobs, so it is essential to have a functioning order and time tracking system. Therefor I developed a system in raw PHP for about 2 years ago, and this is the base for the newly fully rewritten system we are currently using today, made with CakePHP.I will try to make a short tour of the system here,...

Datasource for S3 - Amazon Simple Storage System

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 03:14:32 +0000

I was meeting the challenge to guarantee the uptime and the stability of a few files created by cake, after a previous denial of service attack on our server. A small number of files is to be accesses and distributed out to a few thousand users, with a guarantee of our servercapasity.After the cake feast I ended up with creating a data source for S3 instead of a behavior. Based on the Api and s...

PornoShelf - Video Tube Site easily accomplished with CakePHP

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:02:50 +0000

[h3]The preliminary stuff[/h3]In order to sort of grasp the concept of using CakePHP for this fresh application, I needed to understand what was so special about CakePHP. A lot of people will say that the scaffolding and baking is what makes cake special, but actually, what is really specially to me is the great libraries that really save me so much time not having to write my own. And the best...

F-E-E-D-Z.com - RSS and Atom Feed Directory

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:10:30 +0000

[url]http://www.F-E-E-D-Z.com[/url] took approximately 4-5 part-time days to map and build. The general structure was to have categories as a top level, the feeds as a second level and then each of the feed items as the third level. I had chosen to do Categories as a Tree, of course which has worked out well. I setup associations as:Category hasMany FeedFeed belongsTo Category and hasMany FeedC...

Start to Finish: My Site Designed using CakePHP

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:54:43 +0000

[h3]The Inspiration[/h3]The idea came to me when reading an interview in a magazine and being fascinated by the back and fourth discussion between the interviewer and the interviewee. I thought to myself "shouldn't everyone have the opportunity to have a professional interview, not just the uber famous?" I decided the answer was yes, and set off to create this site. The design is simple and str...

How a Cake-noob built TutorialMagazine.com in 14 days

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 07:16:23 +0000

[quote]â€Find out what people want, and then find a way to give them just thatâ€ â€“ the secret to online success[/quote]Every successful website needs to solve a problem, or fulfill a need. For me, and perhaps for many of you, finding good tutorials is hard. There are many tutorial-aggregate sites out there, but most of them link to thousands of poorly written, uninformative tutorials. My go...

How we built Twittermail in 48 hours

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:47:38 +0000

Okay, for those who don't know Twittermail, Twittermail is an openidea by Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, he thought that it would be nice if people could e-mail their tweets to Twitter.com.This is very useful for people who use mobile phones. Of course you can go to the mobile webpage of Twitter, but sending an e-mail is much more easier. Some older phones do not even have a browser and only hav...