Cake will do just fine for you. The most important thing about the longevity of any application is the strength of your data models.
As long as you keep the data clean and follow strict conventions, you be fine. Cakephp promotes a very clean and normalized data model. Code with confidence. === (*) I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships. Linus Torvalds - http://lwn.net/Articles/193245/ On Sep 21, 2011, at 3:00 PM, mark kelly wrote: > Hi > I developed a site last year in php and mysql in a procedural manner > (I did not use MVC model or object oriented programming). The project > is being developed further along with 2 new programmers. As we have > got some investment and it looks like this application (market place > style website) will be going for a few years, I would like to apply > Best Practices to the existing code. This means using the MVC model > and OOP. I feel its best to do this now where the website is at a > manageable(ish) 300 files rather than a year down the line when its a > mess.. > > Do ye think its a good idea to use the cakePHP framework to force a > sort of structure on the code? So we would not be doing a lot of new > coding, instead we'd be using the framework to enforce good practices > of OOP and MVC. Also, any estimates on if this would take long (300 > files) and whether cakePHP is right for this? Or if it's worth doing > at all? > Thanks > Mark > > -- > Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials > http://tv.cakephp.org > Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help > others with their CakePHP related questions. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
