AJAX Implementation on Petrolwatch.com.sg Cake PHP & Script.aculo.us

Michael Cheng CTO, Petrolwatch.com.sg CTO, Comwerks Pte Ltd

Singapore PHP User Group Convener for…

Petrolwatch.com.sg  Petrol Watch is designed as a community project with an aim to provide information and services to all motorists in Singapore.  50,000+ members on mailing list.  Re-launched in November  500 paying members.

Petrolwatch.com.sg  Web 2.0 concept – Social Networking  AJAX – Dynamic and efficient user experience  Table-less CSS Layout – Semantic web / search engine friendly

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Why Cake PHP?  Very short development time-frame – Needed a stable / efficient RAD platform  2 weeks (Singapore Motor Show 06)  RoR – Not familiar with Ruby  PHP – PHP on Traks?  uses Cake PHP

Cake PHP  Cake is a rapid development framework for PHP which uses commonly known design patterns like ActiveRecord, Association Data Mapping, Front Controller and MVC.  Our primary goal is to provide a structured framework that enables PHP users at all levels to rapidly develop robust web applications, without any loss to flexibility. Source:

Cake PHP Hot Features!  Model, View, Controller Architecture  View Helpers for AJAX, Javascript, HTML Forms and more  Built-in Validation  Application Scaffolding  Application and CRUD code generation via Bake Source:

Cake PHP Hot Features!  Access Control Lists  Data Sanitization  Security, Session, and Request Handling Components  Flexible View Caching  And More... Source:

Most importantly, native support for…

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Cake PHP  Blog App – Blogs / Categories  Baking Time!  Mapping Data  Normal Form Submission  AJAX Form Submission

Singapore PHP User Group Meetup Feb 2007, 7pm (Location: TBC)