I have a cakePhp application built, and now I'm creating a simple blog based on our activities (much like blog.stackoverflow.com).
What blogging plugins / software are most commonly used with CakePhp? Wordpress? lilblogs?
Just a few pointers in the right direction would be helpful.
You can install Wordpress, then if you want create CakePHP models which map to the Wordpress tables, then bake out the controllers etc if you really wanted to. I've done this a few times, as an easy way to get CakePHP to render recent wordpress articles.
Have a read about Models in the book, which will tell you how to build a custom model. http://book.cakephp.org/view/66/Models
There are a lot of applications specific to cakephp but you really should know about the resources that are available for free when you get into this venture.
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My employer runs a website with a homebrewed CMS that it has outgrown. I would prefer to use Django, but since everything is already in PHP, and I know the Cakephp framework, I'm going to just rebuild it in Cake. I've already done the gap analysis between the current site and the Cake version and it looks doable.
However, I need the site to have a CMS and don't want to put one together myself. I'd rather not reinvent the wheel. Croogo seems like the most actively developed and positively reviewed Cake CMS, so I'm leaning in that direction.
The trouble is I can't find any detailed documentation of how Croogo handles the database relative to Cake. I understand there is a direct link between the two, but is that enough for me to just trust that I can easily take an existing Cake site and magically integrate that with Croogo? I have a strong feeling that it won't be that simple.
I plan on to creating a fake croogo site to try to look behind the curtain, but I'd rather not have to reverse engineer the whole thing. So, does anyway know a bit about my scenario or have a resource they can point me to?
I doubt I'm the only one who wants to migrate an existing site to Croogo.
It really isn’t that difficult to build something in CakePHP. As long as your database is normalised, and you have your models set up correctly, you can easily “bake” something specific to your needs. User authentication with bcrypt-hashed password is easy to add, as is authentication and ACL.
I have a starting point that covers the above that I use for each CakePHP project, and can quickly build bespoke websites in CakePHP with little effort, without having to shoe-horn it into a CMS or plugin. Once you go down that road and start working around a particular CMS or plugin, you’ll find yourself quickly in the same position (outgrowing your chosen CMS/plugin’s capabilities) as opposed to building something that’s fit for purpose.
I've only touched the top of the iceberg of Joomla and cakePHP. There is so much to learn. But on top of learning I want to build something useful as well.
Joomla is the easiest to set up and is very agile if I wanted to get things up and running with concepts that are already in use out there. That is, I can install different components and extensions that are developed by other uses. The problem here is that I'm limited to other people's imagination and vision. What if I wanted something specific and no components or extension meets my needs, I would need to build my own. Which brings me to the question: -
Should I learn how to develop custom components/extensions in Joomla, or learn cakePHP to truly be capable of engineering my own application to suit all my needs?
Here is the application that I want to build through my learning - an integration of all of the below component each able to interact with one another:
A blog
A forum
A user participating recipe book
User calendar
Image gallery
Yes there is alot that I want to do, but it's all in the name of learning. I really want to be able to have an application which has an integration of all the above components which works smoothly together. For example, when a user submits a recipe or a blog this is written to their Calendar. Another example, user will be able to share their recipe/image gallery within their blog, without the reader having to navigate away. Another example, images can be tagged with recipe or ingredients of the recipe.
I'm starting on a clean slate, so I'm really looking for some opinion on which one I should stick to to achieve what I want to do. And which one will have a steeper learning curve?
For a forum, you could use Kunena.
Image Gallery, Blog and User Calendar should be easy enough to find.
As for the Recipe Book, if you are willing to purchase an extension then the ZOO app by Yootheme might be an idea, or you could allow users to submit standard Joomla articles and use a comments component such as JComment
I have a web application built using CakePHP framework and now I am in the process of internationalizing it. I started with the base set-up as outlined in the below article -
http://puskin.in/blog/2010/08/cakephp-manage-multiple-language-in-application/
and also add little bit of customization based on my previous question -
CakePHP: Internationalizing Web Application
To completely internationalize my web app, I would need to translate my drop-down/look-up content as well, like - categories, favorites, countries, bucket list etc.
What is the best way to design my tables and CakePHP samples? Can someone explain with a simple example and classes? Links or articles?
Lets say we have something like -
A user can create multiple posts, and each post has a category [science article, match article] etc in the drop-down and same we need to internationalize drop-down as well.
Two hints:
Read the manual of cakephp.
Look into the code of a available application (maybe croogo)
My open source project is translated.
It call CandyCane. A port of Redmine into CakePHP.
I also imported translation files from Redmine, so CandyCane supports numbers of languages from the beginning.
https://github.com/yandod/candycane
It might be helpful for you.
I am creating a webapp in Cakephp, and am thinking of implementing a search function in it. I read about Zend Lucene providing the search capabilities for native PHP webapps.
I have my web pages all created without using any kind of database functionality. How will I able to add webpages to the indexes? I don't mean the code, just an idea would help.
Regards
I don't know anything about Lucene, but a start, if you're using cake, would be to put the existing pages under the control of the Cake pages controller - read about it in the book http://book.cakephp.org or google more information.
After that, I would probably start thinking about using fgetss() or something like that to scrape the pages.
Me? I'd get the existing pages into the database and set up a Article[n]-[m]Word datamodel. Much easier to deal with them then.
I was trying develop a website with Cakephp and Joomla... But lately I've been founding a lot of barriers that create difficulties implementing things that would have been a lot easier if I only developped using one of the components.
So, in your point of view (as someone with more experience than me), is it worth to integrate CakePhp with a CMS?
If yes, what do you think its the best and easier CMS to integrate with?
Or use Croogo (http://croogo.org/)
A CakePHP CMS. I like Croogo's implementation more than Wildflower and the admin UI looks a bit similar to Wordpress.
From my point of view i wouldn't try. I think there would be a lot of crossover functionality and a lot of conflict. Either use Cake and write a CMS and the other elements you want or pick a CMS and develop the other elements you want as add-ins/plugins.
Joomla, Drupal, Xaraya, Expression-engine etc are all extensible so pick the one that is the best fit and has the ability to be extended or maybe already has plugins you require.
Another option would be to use Joomla as the CMS and Cake for the other element you want, keep them as separate entities but skin then identically and make the navigation seamless. In this case about the only thing you would need to integrate would be state.
There are some out there already that are on Cake from the ground up. Wildflower for example
http://wf.klevo.sk/
I have a cakephp site that is running wordpress in it's public_html/blog folder and it is doing great.
They are basically two separate sites, with two separate backend but it is fairly easy to create a model for the wordpress database if you want to pull in any data (eg. posts, pages, comments) and use it in the cakephp site.
As far a integrating the two I don't think it is a good idea if it needs to be a seamless experience for the backend users, most frontend users won't notice the difference because you can use the same style sheet and images.
If you want any more about my experiences with the combination let me know!
Cakeui is a rip of Croogo. Infinitas CMS could be what you're looking for if you want a full blown application or check this site for a list of good CakePHP Cms
As the developer of Croogo, I will be biased and recommend you to check it out at http://croogo.org. It comes with a web based installer too and you should be up and running in minutes.
Another CakePHP based CMS is Infinitas which has more features (including shopping cart). Both are based on the latest version of the framework (1.3 at the moment) and are actively developed.
I wrote a lot of CMS type apps with Cake and was thinking along the same lines. I've tried Joomla, Drupal and Wordpress but still had a dirty feeling in my mouth that I was failing by using Cake just for the sake of it or vice versa.
The most important common denominator, in my experience, is the back-end. It is re-used most often, but gets the least input.
Now I have built my own CMS with CakePHP. The intention is to 'opensource' it, but it's not quite ready yet.
I don't think it is worth the headache trying to combine, then maintain Cake and a 3rd party CMS. Save your best modules and components and build your own. The blog tutorial will give you a good head start and you can cherrypick what you like from other sources, rewriting it to suit your ideals. The benefit is you will then know the CMS inside out and have it working just the way you want. You'll learn a lot along the way as well.