Articles Tagged with PHP
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Nate Abele - PHP is dying
Written on 2008-12-03 07:42:00 in CakeFest, CakePHP,
Viewed 7297 times 1 CommentNate started with a brief history of computation, starting with the abacus. And progressing to PHP and covering the presence of bad PHP and Perl code. The good and bad of frameworks Frameworks can help inexperienced developers write better code, however a framework can also be used in a black box context. As a tool that you use, you should try to understand how and why it works. Having a blackbox is not going to help you get better. If you want to use a tool and use it well you have to open it up. PHP still faces a number of challenges even after inexperienced developers are not included. These include a lack of namespaces, anonymous functions, closures. Many of these issues are solved by PHP 5.3. However, PHP is still dying becuase you can't overload operators. And it is just too simple. It requires only a few lines to generate output. Unlike a re... -
Mariano Iglesias - CakeFest.org: Themes, ACL, Auth, Security, and more
Written on 2008-12-03 10:11:00 in CakeFest, CakePHP,
Viewed 6060 times 0 CommentsMariano is presenting about creating a complete website with a framework. Specifically Mariano will be talking the CakeFest site. This should help to show how to apply the theories that have been talked about up to today and throughout the rest of the week. cakefest.org was developed for the first Cakefest, it is multi-user, multi-event, multi-language application, that was needed to scale for mulitple events. It was built with Themes, Behaviors, pagination, security, Acl, Auth and i18n. Using themes to 'reskin' a site Themes are set by using Controller::$view = 'Theme'; and setting Controller::$theme = 'themeName'. The theme views allow you to override specific views and leave others as they are in the core application. In the CakeFest site the theme was tied to a url parameter. This allowed search engines to crawl and consume all o...
