First of all, my apologies for the 23839929th "newbie questions" topic ;) But I've been reading up on cakePHP the couple of last days now, and I've still some questions left which I'll like to answer before I really can start working on my project.
Maybe some sort of background info could help, so here is some about me and what I'm trying to accomplish: My name is Ruud Bijnen, I'm 22 years old and live in the Netherlands. Although I've been scripting PHP for over 6 years now, I never had any proper education on computer science. All these years I've worked on little hobby projects, which didn't require to much work, so my experience with frameworks, MVC architecture and open source contribution is almost zero. The reason I'm now starting to use cakePHP is that I've taken on a more complex project, and didn't want to start from scratch, also it's a nice opportunity for me to learn about frameworks and a more professional way of scripting/programming. I live together with 13 other students in a nice student flat. Almost every day we have diner together, although not everyone will join everyday, we usually are with about 8 people. In order to keep costs for everyone fair we keep track of who's eating that day, and which costs are made, who paid for the food and who's next in line to prepare diner. For this we have a few forms and those results are weekly transformed into Excel sheets. (also we've paperwork for beer, snacks, chores and expenses (on household products etc.) My task is to automate those processes. Also there is going to be a nice little touch screen pc in the living room to be able to access al (or at least most of the) these tasks. And me and my housemates will be able to use a public website to access the app. // sorry for the way to long introduction, I'll try to keep it to the point My first question is: how to best separate the 2 different user interfaces? Not only has everything to be large on the touch screen console, the steps to accomplish something will be totally different in comparison to the 'public' website. So I can't just use two different style sheets. But the logic in the models (and probably the most in the controllers) will be identical, so two different cake apps probably isn't the best solution. This brings me to my second question: what sort of code belongs to the controller, and what to the model? The manual is imo not very consistent about this, and that confuses me. For example, in the models chapter they put some functions to a model, like: hide($id), unhide($id) and makeInactive($uid). This makes perfectly sense to me, but in "Example: Simple User Authentication" they just put every thing in the controller (even the password challenging, which imo should be part of the model). Third: what would you recommend, develop in 1.x.x.x or 1.2.x.x? I understand that it could take a while before the 1.2 branch reaches a RC/stable milestone, and that "it's done when it's done" or as Samuel DeVoreput it: "when it's done baking" ;). Personally I feel more like using 1.2, unless you would discourage that. Fourth, and hopefully last: there are a couple of authentication examples/methods out there, but what would the best to use at this point, or should I write my own? Like most programmers I don't like to reinvent the wheel. There are now a few auth modules I could chose from, but most are under heavy development, are abandoned, or lack proper documentation. I'll need a auth module where users can belong to multiple groups (because some housemates will be admin to a part of the app and some a few parts), but don't know which (if there is any). At this point I don't have a lot of experience with blogging or writing in general, but maybe at some point I'll try to write some about this project, and it's problems and solutions I came across. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
