Re: Do I develop user authentication or the site itself first?

2008-01-10 Thread Sonic Baker
I try to go with doing whatever gives the most business value first. This means whichever piece of functionality is most important in getting the application working in the shortest amount of time. You can then release this part to the testers immediately and get feedback early. However, on my

Do I develop user authentication or the site itself first?

2008-01-09 Thread 703designs
I'm building my first site in CakePHP. It will involve a few different sections that users will need to log in to post on, and I'm uncertain about in which order I should be developing the site. This is the first large-scale web app I've ever built; all prior PHP experience has been for brief

Re: Do I develop user authentication or the site itself first?

2008-01-09 Thread Chris Hartjes
On Jan 9, 2008 3:28 PM, 703designs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm building my first site in CakePHP. It will involve a few different sections that users will need to log in to post on, and I'm uncertain about in which order I should be developing the site. This is the first large-scale web app

Re: Do I develop user authentication or the site itself first?

2008-01-09 Thread Robby Anderson
I used some of Chris's links, so I can recommend them. :) Personally, I'm building out user security, authentication, access control, session management, logging and testing first. They're all pretty important elements, and I want to make sure they're right (or at least working) before I move

Re: Do I develop user authentication or the site itself first?

2008-01-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I agree with Chris, it really doesn't matter which you do first, using functions like beforeRender and beforeFilter you can easily add your authentication in one place after your site is complete. But then again there's not reason not to do it first either. Just whatever you're preference is I