The Bakery Everything CakePHP

Intro

Originally, I had an idea to craw through Netflix to get upcoming DVD releases but somehow ended up doing Amazon product. The goal of the site is simple: To focus on a product's release date and to allow people to discover the undiscovered products.

Site link

http://www.releasedatez.com/

What was used

The site was built using triple frameworks: Blueprintcss for CSS, jQuery for JavaScript, and CakePHP for Server-side language. Since this is a Cake post, I won't say much about Blueprintcss or jQuery. All I can say is they are both outstanding frameworks and they both help me shorten my coding time. Initially, I had some trouble implementing AJAX using jQuery and Cake but I solved the issue thanks to the helpful community.

CakePHP Benefits

Now to the benefit of CakePHP. This is the first time I've really used a PHP framework so the learning curve was quite steep for me. But after I really sat down and built a few model, controllers, and views, it was a lot of the same thing after that. These are some added benefits that I got from using Cake:

• Organization/Manageable code – Code has never been this easy to follow.
• Faster development – It would have taken me twice as long to finish ReleaseDatez without Cake.
• Expandability – It's very easy to expand the functionality of the site (e.g. search functions, category filters, etc...)

Great CakePHP Features

There are some features in the framework that just wowed me. These are:

• Pagination – Very easy to implement.
• Routing – Makes your URL look clean.
• Console – Organizes my cron script (something this site cannot live without).

Overall Experience

CakePHP is a really nice framework to start with because of its rigid structure. This framework really knocks the MVC concept into my brain. This makes me more prepared for any future projects that I will encounter.