Date : 3/04/2010 Web Technology Solutions Class: PHP Web Application Frameworks

Tonight ✤ Final Review ✤ Intro to PHP Frameworks ✤ Sample CakePHP App Lab

Lab Preview ✤ Application Development ✤ Registration Feature ✤ Login\Logout ✤ Maintain State ✤ CRUD ✤ Publish XML and RSS

The Final Project

Final Project Details ✤ What is it? A Web App ✤ Use custom HTML, CSS, JS and PHP ✤ MySQL DB provided for you.

Final Project Details ✤ What are the deliverables due at the end of the course? ✤ The Final Project Report ✤ Final Project Code Documentation ✤ Functional Web Application

Final Project Report ✤ An intro paragraph describing your app. ✤ less than one page summary describing lessons learned during design\development phases ✤ a table with a brief description of pages within your app and how they function. ✤ one page commentary on effectiveness of agile development and the prototype process.

Final Project Documentation ✤ Requirements Document ✤ Interaction Design Document ✤ Application Architecture Drawing

Final Project Documentation ✤ Requirements Document ✤ document that details the functionality of your app. ✤ Features Described. Cause and Effect plus expected outcomes from user interaction.

Final Project Documentation ✤ Interaction Design Doc ✤ Wireframes ✤ Interaction Flow Model

Final Project Documentation ✤ Application Architecture Drawing ✤ Show your application stack \ tiers

Final Project Review ✤ Final Project - Web App (link) ✤ registration feature ✤ login logout ✤ admin ability to create\read\update\delete (CRUD) ✤ Maintain State throughout app (cookies\sessions) ✤ XML and RSS feeds ✤ Valid XHTML and CSS design

Final Project Review ✤ Final Project - Web App (link) ✤ registration feature (week 6) ✤ login logout (week 7) ✤ admin ability to create\read\update\delete (CRUD) (week 4-5) ✤ Maintain State throughout app (cookies\sessions) (week 7) ✤ XML and RSS feeds (week 8) ✤ Valid XHTML and CSS design

Presentation ✤ This mirrors real world client reviews, especially in agile. ✤ Make sure your application is working ahead of time. ✤ Stand in front of class and walk us thru what your app does. ✤ Demo each requirement. ✤ If there is a bug, try to skip over it.

PHP FRAMEWORKS

PHP Frameworks ✤ What is a framework? ✤ code that helps you write apps faster. ✤ defines a rigid development workflow ✤ implies that you code to a standard ✤ supplies helpers to aid in rapid development

PHP Frameworks ✤ What makes a good framework? ✤ well over 20 style of PHP frameworks (much to choose from) ✤ must be easy to learn ✤ simple to use ✤ intuitive to work with ✤ easy to extend and modify (must be stable) ✤ aid in rapid development and maintenance. ✤ must have a dev community

PHP Frameworks ✤ 10. WACT (component toolkit) ✤ 9. Seagull ✤ 8. Prado ✤ 7. PHPDevShell ✤ 6. Zend Framework ✤ 5. CodeIgniter ✤ 4. Symfony ✤ 3. Yii ✤ 2. Kohana ✤ 1. CakePHP

PHP Frameworks ✤ 10. WACT (component toolkit) ✤ 9. Seagull ✤ 8. Prado ✤ 7. PHPDevShell ✤ 6. Zend Framework (recommend) ✤ 5. CodeIgniter (recommend) ✤ 4. Symfony (recommend) ✤ 3. Yii (recommend) ✤ 2. Kohana (recommend) ✤ 1. CakePHP (recommend)

Why Use One? ✤ Active, friendly communitycommunity ✤ Flexible licensinglicensing ✤ Compatible with versions PHP and greater. ✤ Integrated CRUD for database interaction.CRUD ✤ Application scaffolding.scaffolding ✤ Code generation. ✤ MVC architecture. MVC ✤ Request dispatcher with clean, custom URLs and routes. ✤ Built-in validation.validation ✤ Fast and flexible templating (PHP syntax, with helpers).templating ✤ View Helpers for AJAX, JavaScript, HTML Forms and more. ✤ , Cookie, Security, Session, and Request Handling Components. ✤ Flexible ACL.ACL ✤ Data Sanitization. ✤ Flexible Caching.Caching ✤ Localization. ✤ Works from any web site directory, with little to no Apache configuration involved. Apache ✤ Fast and flexible templating (PHP syntax, with helpers).View Helpers for AJAX, JavaScript, HTML Forms and more. , Cookie, Security, Session, and Request Handling Components.Flexible ACL.Data Sanitization.Flexible Caching.Localization.Works from any web site directory, with little to no Apache configuration involved.templatinganiization invol

MVC ✤ A software design pattern that allows separation of data (model) and the user interface (view). ✤ Model (Data Layer) ✤ database logic. data wrappers. security. ✤ View (user interface) ✤ Renders the model into a form suitable for interaction, typically a user interface element ✤ Controller (manages interactions) ✤ Processes and responds to events, typically user actions, and may invoke changes on the model.

CakePHP ✤ Some of the things Cake does so you don’t have to: ✤ eases creation of standard content management functionality (adding, editing and deleting) ✤ uses template-like Layouts and Views to separate logic from presentation ✤ validates form fields ✤ automatically escapes data saved to the database (to prevent SQL injection attacks) ✤ includes callbacks (eg do an action before or after save) ✤ allows for both test and production databases

CakePHP in Action ✤ Using cakePHP’s scaffolding to create a simple webapp that tracks bookmarks ✤ 1. Set up your database (use db conventions) ✤ 2. Set up your model. ✤ 3. Set up your controller. ✤ 4. Set up view (optional)

Lab & Next Week ✤ Final Project - Get’r Done! See you Tuesday!