Comments on: What could be the killer application for CakePHP?

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:39:32 +0000

@zim's: Have a look on http://cakeforge.org/, there are many projects (e.g. Cheesecake Photoblog) available for download. HTH

By: zim's

zim's — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:16:38 +0000

any body know where i can get a sample application build using cakephp?

please mail me at gurning@gmail.com or post here if any body know where link can i’m browse to get that

thanks a lot,

[edited by cakebaker: removed irrelevant links]

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 16:16:08 +0000

@Tom: Go for it :) Of course it is possible to create a better solution than Basecamp, but I wouldn’t underestimate the effort to create such an application.

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 23:18:45 +0000

I could create a killer application for cakePHP…if you mean “popular useful and pretty” by that. It’s a matter of design. I’m completely convinced cake can build very nice applications. I am full of work right now, but I am using cake to create a photo/patient database. That app really won’t make it to the public, but I would love to make a basecamp killer. I have the idea, I’ve had the idea for a long while and Cake is going to make it easier to execute. …but sure, I could make an app way better than the popular basecamp with my eyes closed. Basecamp is limited (and kinda easy to create even without cake)…but for some reason they manage to make money off it. I don’t know how. Anyway, it’s nothing to do with how you get there, it’s all about how it works.

By: Mark Rairdon

Mark Rairdon — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 21:14:42 +0000

I’ve gone through several wiki tutorials for cake…some are helpful, others just dead end (more to come…what to do next?). You’re absolutely right there’s no killer app at all to really put it together and I just don’t have the time to figure bits and pieces out.

My only hangup with symfony was that you need php5. Cake is php4 & 5…so I thought it would be a better start moving to a MVC framework with backwards compatibility. Now I’m going to symphony anyway just to make some progress.

By: Damir Secki

Damir Secki — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:48:38 +0000

I think a classifieds system would be a great app for a showoff…
showing it step by step in a intuitive tutorial with some nice ajax features and voila!

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 12:18:57 +0000

@s: I think there exist some “good” applications developed with CakePHP, whatever “good” means in this context. But you are right, the killer application for CakePHP has not been created yet, although that is no reason for me for not using CakePHP ;-)

By: s

Mon, 10 Apr 2006 16:16:41 +0000

if cake is so great so why there is no good application for that? I can`t find anything what kickass.

By: Coeus

Coeus — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 03:54:54 +0000

First and foremost, these are two great projects and it really shows how great and powerful the php community.

I agree that cakePHP lacks in the documentation department and am hoping it gets better once the stable version is released. People won’t want to use a framework if there isn’t enough documentation out there telling them how to use it.

The tutorials are a most, these are practical examples of how to bake with cakephp. So they definitely need to update their wiki and make it easier to use. As the author pointed out, I didn’t even know a screencast existed for cakephp.

I hope the cake team focus more on documentation + tutorials once the stable version is out, becuase I do believe it is the best framework out there for php

By: amigos

amigos — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 04:09:42 +0000

I was once attracted to CakePHP…then I move to symfony..why?? Cos symfony sell themself better…way way better than Cake…I admit that Cake is a great framework..but most of its greatness are not documented…and I keep asking myself..what is great about this Cake anyway…and yet still in beta…

Blogs seem to be supporting Cake quite a lot..but still Cake website dont seem to take that for granted…Maybe its becos the people at Cake were so busy with the baking cake that they dont have the time to make the icing…but then again, that’s a lame excuse..symfony just released the 0.6 version and the tutorial is already updated…the symfony book, a 200+ pages of manual was updated as well..and still they to are busy with the developement work..

So, to Cake guys…whats the point of having such great framework, when you cant tell the audience how great you are…its like having a porshe, but couldn’t drive it.