Cake PHP Rocks

By Sai Machavarapu (nuuvoo)
I have successfully created a website using Cake within a short period of time. It works great and cake framework simply rocks.
It is very difficult to find websites that are using the Cake framework and hence the success of this great framework is very difficult to measure. I thought of posting this on the bakery in the interest of finding other websites that run using cake.

I have been in the technology industry for over 12 years, starting my career as a developer. I have not written a single line of code in over 8 years and have mostly dealt with enterprise level systems although I have run IT infrastructure for a web based company and thus understand the Internet.

When we decided to launch our own company, LAMP stack was a good choice as it offered as easy way to build and a cheaper means to deploy. But using PHP meant deviating away from the MVC framework which I loved and something that kept building and management of web applications easy. My research led me to the Cake Framework.

It took me a while to get used to its syntax and while there is some good written material out there, the bakery, the manual in cakephp.org and the Google groups really helped me. It would be nice if someone authored a good book on Cakephp.

I took about 4 months to build and launch my website (http://www.nuuvoo.com) working part-time. The last month, I have spent quite a bit of time as the website was mostly built and the excitement of launch prompted a slurry of feature additions. Within 2 weeks of launch, we are showing up on some Google search results as well.

Cake framework really rocks as I could not have built it without the MVC framework for PHP. Using only PHP would have discouraged me.

I want to thank everyone who have built this framework and continue to enhance it. I do hope that someone who is an expert in technical writing and is hoping to publish their first book will take the interest and write a book.

I am also interested in finding out other websites that run on Cake and share their interests with the community. Please respond to this post with your experiences.

Thanks.
Sai
http://www.nuuvoo.com

 

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1 Sites in the wild

I guess you missed this page on the google group: http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php/web/cake-apps-sites-in-the-wild
By the by, as a usual first answer to the question; how well is cake doing, people often answer that Mozilla Firefox's add on page uses cake.

Your site looks interesting (from a solution perspective, i got a credit card im happy with :P), I would like to see project summaries articles on challenges and their solutions :)

Anyways, thanks for posting a success story :)
Posted Feb 19, 2008 by Alexander Morland
 

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2 Another site with CakePHP

Hi Sai. I use cakePHP for developing my blog too! And I agree with you. CakePHP made me so easy to build my own blog :)

Here's my blog : http://theblacquesite.web.id
Thanks CakePHP. You're really really rocks!
Posted Feb 25, 2008 by Fiqhi Pangarso
 

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3 CookBook Beta Version

Hi Sai, If you do not want to wait you may read the temporary manual http://tempdocs.cakephp.org or the well-formated beta version http://book.cakephp.org/.

As a web developer, I feel the manuals (even the 1.1.x manual) are quite helpful to get started.

btw, your website is pretty good, the HTML code looks very neat.

Posted Feb 26, 2008 by TechSteve
 

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4 I want to use it on my website too

I want to use it on my website http://www.coaching.in too. I think cake php is very good and is future of website building.
Posted Jul 3, 2008 by Shyam
 

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5 will try for our blog

Thanks sai, will try cakePHP for upcoming blog on http://www.artistspages.org/
I've still not come across any book on Cakephp.
Posted Jul 8, 2008 by chow chu
 

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6 I try it for our vacation rental site

I was looking for some kind of framework for our vacation rental http://www.chaletino.com/ site. Currently, I am testing, but I like what I see. I am not very familiar with real OO Designs or MVC, but try to catch on.
Posted Jul 27, 2008 by Yves Latour
 

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7 Excellent framework

This seems like a great framework. Earlier also I have heard abt it from a couple of developers.
Now I will definetly use to improve my site http://www.resumeforjobs.com/

Thanks a lot !
Posted Jun 23, 2009 by Joana Mariam