Ask yourself if the Joomla site was secure. I mean most of those sites (and I made quite a few) are hacked together components and modules written by others. You could always learn how to write exetnsions for Joomla to make the site do what you want, but you have to balance that against the time it would take to write a new site from scratch.
If you create the app in cake, you will probably have to learn some new concepts about web services for background processing. There will be a learning curve there no doubt. It depends upon your clients goal and budget + the time required. I usually like to start from scratch when working with someone elses code, but in truth the client doesn't see all the under the hood stuff going on, just the results. I personally would try and do the rewrite, but you will have to create a lot of things from scratch that come already with Joomla, such as the admin backend and any components. Things to keep in mind. On Aug 23, 6:37 am, WhyNotSmile <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm currently working on a site which was half-built in Joomla by > another developer. I've been asked to finish it off, but I'm having > doubts as to whether the way it's done is ever going to work well > (there's a LOT still to be done in it, and the way it's been built, > it's going to take some hacking to get all the parts to work > together). > > I usually use CakePHP to build sites, and I've been thinking of > suggesting to the client that I just re-write the whole thing from > scratch, using cake. However, the sites I've built with Cake before > have always been basic websites, or apps which just used PayPal for > payments. > > This site needs to accept credit cards as a means of payment as well > as PayPal, and possibly bank accounts too. Would CakePHP be a good > way to build this site? I know it would work well for the behind-the- > scenes building user profiles and so on, but I'm thinking in terms of > security for processing transactions, preventing hacking etc. (since > bank account details etc may be stored, security needs to be up a > notch from the regular site security). > > I'd appreciate any advice, or if anyone could point me to some helpful > resources, that would be a big help. > > Thanks! > Sharon Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://cakeqs.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" 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
