CakePHP In the Enterprise
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There are many e-commerce platforms (both open and closed source) on the market, however, most of these e-commerce solutions are overly complex for the needs of the average user. In addition, the most popular open source e-commerce solutions tend to have blocks of poor quality and erroneous code which make maintaining concurrent versions and upgrading very difficult. With this in mind, UGR Works set out to create a streamlined e-commerce platform with a clean code base which was easy to set-up, maintain and upgrade.
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 complete e-commerce solution.
UGR Works first considered developing their own PHP framework, but, after researching this option and a number of other frameworks for PHP, it became apparent that CakePHP was the clear choice for the project. Its MIT licensing model, the growing community of users and the speed in which it enabled development helped empower the UGR Works technical team to bring the project to fruition within budget and to the required time-scale. This is why UGR Works is committed to making a donation to the CakePHP project for every licence sold.
During the building of Sunshine (the multiple store solution for freelancers and agencies), UGR Works utilised all of the features of CakePHP and made extensive use of helpers, models and unit testing. They also employed the use of Smarty (for bespoke end user templates), MySQL, Ruckusing (for database migrations), and Git (for version control).
UGR's Sunshine has been in development for 9 months, of this time, about 6 months were spent on focused, full-time development. Ultimately, CakePHP was highly instrumental in the success of this project. CakePHP has helped facilitate UGR Works to create a very stable and successful e-commerce platform in record time - an impressive feat considering the complexities of the task that was set.
The software itself is already causing a buzz amongst Scottish new media agencies. The UGR Works team are looking forward to exciting times ahead as they continue to develop their software.
UGR's Sunshine is a standing testament to the power of CakePHP, thank you to the developers of CakePHP!
http://www.ugrworks.com/
UGR Works first considered developing their own PHP framework, but, after researching this option and a number of other frameworks for PHP, it became apparent that CakePHP was the clear choice for the project. Its MIT licensing model, the growing community of users and the speed in which it enabled development helped empower the UGR Works technical team to bring the project to fruition within budget and to the required time-scale. This is why UGR Works is committed to making a donation to the CakePHP project for every licence sold.
During the building of Sunshine (the multiple store solution for freelancers and agencies), UGR Works utilised all of the features of CakePHP and made extensive use of helpers, models and unit testing. They also employed the use of Smarty (for bespoke end user templates), MySQL, Ruckusing (for database migrations), and Git (for version control).
UGR's Sunshine has been in development for 9 months, of this time, about 6 months were spent on focused, full-time development. Ultimately, CakePHP was highly instrumental in the success of this project. CakePHP has helped facilitate UGR Works to create a very stable and successful e-commerce platform in record time - an impressive feat considering the complexities of the task that was set.
The software itself is already causing a buzz amongst Scottish new media agencies. The UGR Works team are looking forward to exciting times ahead as they continue to develop their software.
UGR's Sunshine is a standing testament to the power of CakePHP, thank you to the developers of CakePHP!
http://www.ugrworks.com/
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