Hi Chandra i'm new as well to cake but i don't see any huge roadblocks in using cake to extend your application.
if you notice in the bakery, there is a good resource on how to use smarty for your presentation logic. the business logic and classes can be placed in as components with a few minor tweaks. as far as accessing the db schema, you can do it the cake way or your own way. there's a bit of tweaking that would need to be done to your app i imagine, but i wouldn't say it would have to go as far as refactoring the code. Most OO-PHP code in my experience has worked great with cake. On May 15, 11:56 am, Chandra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The company I work for has a PHP/MySQL (and the Smarty Template > Framework as a front end) based website that been running for a little > while....the time has come to add more functionality to the site. I'd > like to use use CakePHP to add these new features on...and I need to > see if it's even possible (I'm a Cake newbie) and then need to sell it > to my boss. I was hoping somone could answer a few simple questions > for me: > > 1. Site Authentication is done using PHP sessions stored in a > database...Can Cake use the same session methods or will the users > have to re-authenticate as they pass between the old and new > functionality (and vice-versa) > > 2. There is some business logic and classes from the old site I need > to use - anything to watch out for? > > 3. In accessing the existing MySQL database schema...I can use Cake's > CRUD capabilities...or is there a alternate way I should be accessing > the data? > > Thanks for all your help, > > Chandra --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
