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another good document explaining the MVC architecture can be found here:

http://manual.cakephp.org/chapter/basic_concepts

I went through the MVC tutorials and I agree that the the new API is clean and logical but now i am at a loss when i look at the joomla 1.5 code. under administrators if you compare for example the folder structure  for the components : com_banners and com_contacts in com_banners I see the fold...

you need to evaluate clearly your needs and see if you can get by with pure GPL extensions or if you identified already components or modules available under a commercial license. it is very unlikely that developers developing applications under commercial license will develop a 1.5 version of their...

it might be a large undertaking to try to code both for 1.0 and 1.5. with the new mvc framework in 1.5, you would have to create a huge class library just to insure the compatibility but is it really worth the effort ? php 4.0 supports ends at the end of the year per the php project. thus more than ...

The two points of interest are $_COOKIE and setcookie. Cookie information sent by the browser is accessed with $_COOKIE, a super global array containing cookie values keyed by name. The setcookie function is used to assign a key/value pair to be sent back to the client. The client uses the new valu...

@pommond a good way for me to learn a new computer language was to create small examples. 1. look at the joomla 1.5 code in components like content , weblinks... a tutorial on joomla site explains how it is done 2. look at what they do, then go to site like devzone to read some tutorials on a specif...

i have a question about the next piece of the environment. i am using eclipse since a long time for java development and i am used to it and it will work for php. however, another element now is the mvc programming pattern . since setting up Eclipse to work with Cake is fairly simple, i am planning ...