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CakePHP vs CodeIgniter

Harshal Shah — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 13:08:17 +0000

CakePHP and Codeigniter are two of the most popular PHP frameworks (based on MVC architecture) around. I’ve personally used both and liked both of them. They both have some decent features and strength and weaknesses. I’m going to compare both of these frameworks here and give you the differences between without sounding biased to a particular framework. Here we go then, CakePHP vs CodgeIgniter:

1. Simplicity

Codeigniter: CodeIgniter is simple and not too strict to work with. For e.g. you can load a model in a view (even though it is not a good practice). You can even created a whole project without models (it can lead to messy and insecure code though). Controllers are the focal point of operations and most of the operations are performed in the controllers. Fetching data from the models and pulling in the views, everything is simple and clear.
CakePHP: CakePHP is not so simple as CodeIgniter. It is also a bit strict and most of its simplicity comes via automation. The automation makes coding process quicker but also harder to figure out the flow of execution.

2. Library Support

CodeIgniter: CodeIgniter lacks some essential libraries such as ‘Authentication’ and ‘ACL’ . These libraries are needed in most applications so you will need to rely on 3rd party libraries in many of your applications.
CakePHP: CakePHP has integrated Auth and ACL, but both frameworks integrate with 3rd party libraries easily.

3. Ajax

CodeIgniter: CodeIgniter doesn’t have any Ajax helper.
CakePHP: CakePHP comes with Ajax helper.

4. PHP Version

CodeIgniter: CodeIgniter although runs on PHP 4 and PHP 5, doesn’t take advantage of PHP 5 object oriented features.
CakePHP: CakePHP version 2.0 runs only on PHP 5.2 which definitely takes advantage of PHP 5’s Object Oriented features.

5. Code Generation

CodeIgniter: CodeIgniter doesn’t have any code generation or console features.
CakePHP: CakePHP’s ‘Bake Console’ can create any of CakePHP’s basic ingredients: Models, Controllers, Views. It can basically create a fully functional application in minutes.

6. Plugins

CodeIgniter: There aren’t many plugins available for CodeIgniter as compared to CakePHP.
CakePHP: Good amount of plugins are available for CakePHP as compared to CodeIgniter.

7. Communities

CodeIgniter: CodeIgniter has their own official forum and an IRC channel.
CakePHP: CakePHP has a Google group and an IRC channel.

8. Advantages

CodeIgniter:
1. Hassle-free Migration:
Easy and hassle-free migration from server hosting to server hosting.
2. Easygoing:
It is easy to adopt and distribute systematically or strategically and in hand of the user while customizing.
3. Application of new functionality:
One can apply a new functionality without affecting the customization at all.
4. Tractability:
It offers flexibility and easy management With MVC based framework.
5. Gives the benefit of easier configuration:
Provides easier configuration and customization of configuration files.
6. Alleviate with a variety of developers:
Alleviates easy working with a variety of developers.

CakePHP:

1.Helps reduce web application development cost & time considerably.
2.Cakephp is remarkable when it comes to scaffolding code generation.
3. While classes can be challenging to work with in standard PHP, they are much easier to work with in Cakephp.
4.Its automated configuration process auto-detects preferred settings. What does this imply? This means one need not invest considerable time in configuring Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP (LAMP) setup.

Elsnerites’ Visit to Kasbara Municipality School

Harshal Shah — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 12:54:56 +0000

Kasbara Municipality School is located in Tarapur Taluka at Aanand District. It’s a municipality school having 240 students starting from Std 1 to Std 8.Their requirements for having a proper educational experience which were fulfilled by us included stationery items, school bags, raincoats, school uniforms, etc. It was fond experience for Elsnerites to be able to contribute in fulfillment of a tiny eyes’ dreams.

Impress.js – One Of The Most Fascinating Presentation Tool On The Horizon

Harshal Shah — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 05:49:39 +0000

Are you really get bored with that typical presentations build up in some presentation software and that too purely platform dependent? Do you want something more innovative and cool way to present your idea and that too fully platform independent? Then just look at this, we already have it!

impress.js is one such library which can really help you to prepare absolutely cool and innovative presentation. using just impress.js and css3 properties you can create fantastic presentations which can do nothing but simply IMPRESS the viewers of your presentation.

The basic idea of impress.js is came from prezzy.com, a presentation tool which allows you to create amazing 3D presentations with its dedicated software called ‘Prezzy Desktop’. But its CHARGEABLE, and the and that too with very heavy charges, so developers of impress.js thought why to give this much of financial resources to create just cool presentations, while we have power of JS and CSS3 in our hands? and they created this awesome open source presentation tool to really impress your viewers.

Using impress.js you can make your presentations having flip, rotate, scale, zoom, dive in and out and much more that too in 3D interface. Its CSS friendly even so you can have almost infinite styling options to customise your each and every presentations. Now the most important advantage in today’s scene : impress.js is simply a javascript library that is compatible with CSS3, it means ‘its platform independent’ ! You can view your presentations on any browser which supports javascript and css3 well! Now isn’t it IMPRESSIVE enough?

Further it has quite nice community support on github and much learning resources and samples can be found on various github profiles easily. Even one book to use impress.js is also published which is really very useful to work with impress.js.

Hers are some links to get easy with impress.js :

https://github.com/bartaz/impress.js/
http://www.packtpub.com/building-impressive-presentations-with-impressjs/book – to purchase the tutorial book.
http://www.joezimjs.com/javascript/impressive-presentations-with-impress-js-and-extensions/
https://www.opensesame.com/c/create-impressjs-presentation-10-minutes-training-course
http://www.jspres.com – Online impress.js presentation building tool

Microsoft working on its Windows and Windows phone platforms

Harshal Shah — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 07:46:27 +0000

Microsoft is taking a further step to unify its Windows and Windows phone platforms. It is planning to make the windows apps shareable under the Windows umbrella. Currently, windows phone apps cannot be sold on Windows store which contains Metro UI style apps without adequate modifications.

Windows 8 store has 35,000 apps. Microsoft is adding applications to the windows store at a rate of 415 apps per day. Microsoft officials claims that a considerable amount of code reuse is possible between Windows phone apps to be moved to Windows 8 or Windows RT. Where as developers says that lot more work is needed to put while making applications shift platforms. A smooth transition will be need to made as Microsoft has admitted in the past that the developer platforms for Windows phone 8 and Windows 8 are similar but not the same. Many users are excited to see some of their favourite applications from one platform available on the other often a cross platform compatibility. Microsoft is planning to make the platforms very even so that one can buy app form Windows phone 8 store and making it run on all windows 8 devices.

Modern IE for Developers by Microsoft

Harshal Shah — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 05:48:27 +0000

Microsoft introduced the new IE, a set of tools to make developers easy to write better code across a variety of browsers and operating systems. The new site serves to promote web standards and help developers to avoid mistakes like only supporting web kit browsers. It is simple ,easy to use and is very smooth which is a part of Microsoft’s idea to spend less time for testing and more time for building extra ordinary sites.

It also announced its patnership with Browserstack which is a leading browser testing service to test one’s website on any browser and on any operating system. Three months of free service is available for developers who visit browserstack via modern IE. It created add-ins for browsers using chrome and firefox which gives a single click access to the Browserstack service. Also Microsoft faciliatates with free virtual images for developers to download and run local versions of IE for testing with Windows, Linux, Mac or PC. Microsoft incorpated multiple changes in the product including adopting automatic updates to attract customers to the latest version of IE. It has also introduced platform previews for early developers to give feedback and modern web standards with advanced touch capabilities which is accepted by the web developer community.

New Etouch Pens to Convert Your Old Monitor Into Touch Screen

Harshal Shah — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 14:25:44 +0000

Touch screen devices has a huge demand in the market. The new etouch pen facilitates the conversion of non-touch based laptop or PC into touch screen devices. It is especially designed for Windows 8 operating system as it provides an ultimate experience for touch devices. It can also be used for PC’s running on Windows 7. This device is far more better than using mouse even though you cannot use your fingers directly on screen, but gives a fluid and pretty good response while using it.

The device mainly works on combination of ultrasonic and infrared technology. It consists of two parts i.e., receiver which is clipped onto the screen and stylus pen which acts as transmitter. The signals are transmitted to the receiver.It is operated by using a battery which has few brushes at the end that can pick up the vibrations when it is moving. It includes components like a cordless electronic pen and detachable USB cable connector.One can draw,edit and write on the screen by using this device as well as perform many other functions. There is no need for installing additional drivers or softwares. It is gaining its demand among all other devices by its attractive features.

5 Steps to Disable Java in Your Browsers

Harshal Shah — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 18:50:17 +0000

Everyone is aware of the latest stream of Java insanity and want to get rid of it. It is not simple to disable Java in windows computers. But you can do it in a step by step procedure. Follow the below simple steps to disable.

Step-1: Find out which Java version that you are using: You can do this easily through the Java control panel. Bring up the windows control panel and you can find the java icon in it, click on it. If you can’t find the java icon, then go to C:Program FilesJavajre7bin and double click on it.

Step-2: Make sure that you have Java version 7 update 11:Click the About button under about in java control panel. It shows you the version number and it can be version 7 update 9,10 or 11. If you don’t have it, go to Java’s download site and install the latest update version and then restart your browser.

Step-3: Turn off the Java run time in all your browsers: Tap on the security tab inside the control panel and deselect the enabled box in the browser. Click OK and restart your browsers and thus runtime disables in all of your browsers.
Note: You can enable the disabled box to get back Java by repeating the same steps.

Step-4: Turn off Java in each of your selected Java-free browsers: Choose add-ons for your browser and click disable for Java(TM) or Plug-In and then restart the browser.

Step-5: Test for browser: Test finally by running each of them against the Java test site. It should ask the permission to run Java for once.