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PHP Framework Decision - Analysis paralysis! [closed]
OK, sorry in advance for the length of this question!
I've spent ages reading about the pros and cons of all the major PHP Frameworks (i.e. Zend, CakePHP, Symfony, CodeIgniter, etc., etc.). I've also ...
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Which PHP framework is closest to Ruby on Rails? CakePHP? CodeIgniter? [closed]
I'm going to be switching back and forth between Ruby on Rails projects, and some as-of-yet undecided PHP MVC framework projects. Which of the PHP MVC frameworks out there (CakePHP, CodeIgniter?, ...
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12answers
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To Use a PHP Framework or Not?
I've started writing a few applications in PHP, and I'm becoming more familiar with the language. Someone told me about CakePHP, and CodeIgniter. I wanted to get a better understanding of how these ...
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3answers
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Speeding up CakePHP
I've been a keen fan and user of CakePHP for about 2.5 years now, but the main bugbear that most fellow developers level at the framework is that it's slow, and the dispatch cycle takes too long to ...
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3answers
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Asynchronous processing or message queues in PHP (CakePHP)
I am building a website in CakePHP that processes files uploaded though an XML-RPC API and though a web frontend. Files need to be scanned by ClamAV, thumbnails need to be generated, etcetera. All ...
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3answers
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“[notice] child pid XXXX exit signal Segmentation fault (11)” in apache error.log [closed]
I am using Apache/PHP/MySQL stack.
Using as framework CakePHP.
Every now and then I get a blank white page. I can't debug it through Cake, so I peek in the apache error.log and here's what I get:
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1answer
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Xdebug and No Profiling Output
This is a similar problem to XDebug profiling in PHP - can't get output but mine is on windows and I have the full path specified (which solved his problem)
I am not getting any output even ...
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1answer
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CakePHP ACL Database Setup: ARO / ACO structure?
I'm struggling to implement ACL in CakePHP. After reading the documentation in the cake manual as well as several other tutorials, blog posts etc, I found Aran Johnson's excellent tutorial which has ...
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2answers
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Unit testing in CakePHP?
I'm wondering, how do you guys unit-test in CakePHP?
How do you incorporate tests in projects?
What parts of a project do you test? How do you decide which parts gets to be unit-tested?
Do you guys ...
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4answers
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CakePHP: Find where field is not null
I need to select all rows where User.site_url is not null. It's simple enough to do this in a regular MySQL query but how is this done in CakePHP?
The manual mentions the following:
array ("not" ...
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5answers
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Set Response Status Code
I have an API call for which I need to be able to run some checks and potentially return various status codes. I don't need custom views or anything, I just need to return the proper code. If the user ...
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3answers
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What is PHP's session.referer_check protecting me from?
I'm making a system with CakePHP that needs to be decently secure, because we're dealing with money, customer's accounts, etc. So far everything's been working great, until I've had to integrate with ...
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4answers
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Are Symfony and CakePHP too slow to be usable?
Until now, I have always said that CakePHP is too bloated and slow. I don't really know that, I just saw "some" benchmarks. What I really want to know, is that if those two frameworks (Symfony and ...
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10answers
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Should someone with no PHP experience use a framework like CakePHP or Symfony?
I have a simple site to develop and would like to learn PHP as I go. I want the site to be secure, scalable, and easy to maintain. Should I learn a framework and PHP simultaneously? If I build off ...
