PUBLIC MARKS from user solrac with tag CakePHP

A short few years ago, a common criticism about PHP was that it did not support MVC-style architectures. Today, developers can chose from many PHP frameworks. This article shows you how to integrate external tasks with PHP frameworks and create a simple task that can be called using a scheduler such as cron. You'll build the application in each framework, getting a sense for how Zend, symfony, and CakePHP handle automated tasks differently.

The use of Ajax, using native code and third-party PHP frameworks, is examined — specifically, how the Zend Framework, CakePHP, and the symfony framework, behaves and accepts specific popular libraries. After reading this article you should have a basic understanding of how each framework provides (or doesn't provide) support for Ajax.

This article walks through extending the sample application, Blahg, in each of the three frameworks (Zend PHP, symfony, and CakePHP). This is a great way to see each framwork in action by examining their similarities and differences while applying each framework and extending a sample application.