
This weekend, i was alone at home, it's really a first for a long time. So after coding in Java for many years, i decided to give to one of the 'new' PHP frameworks a try (I used PHP intensively a few years back and wrote that French book about it).
I didn't spend a long time to compare them, i have to admit, i mostly left my feeling pick one. So i went with CakePHP. Since i wanted more fun, i also used the Google Map API and REST services to verify addresses entered by a user and to show them maps. On top of that i also used GeoLiteCity to help localizing the visitors based on their IP address.
If you are not familiarized with CakePHP, they describe themselves as a rapid development framework for PHP. With all the promises of RAD frameworks, i was supposed to be able to finish a website in a weekend. Well that's not quite true, but i admit that i did quite a lot knowing that i started from scratch with CakePHP and spent too much time on the UI (despite buying a template).
I will come back on the 3 technologies separately, but as i'm finishing my weekend, i just wanted to leave a note and a small screenshot.
Monday, September 10, 2007
CakePHP + Google API + Geolocalization
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