PHP integrates beautifully with several open-source CMS such as Joomla. This award-winning CMS helps you build powerful online web apps and websites. Joomla allows easy extensibility, which makes it ideal for:
- Web hosting with PHP support.
- Strong UNIX and Linux servers at the backend.
- MySQL or PgSQL database on your domain servers.
- Content Management System (CMS) such as Joomla, Shopify or WordPress.
A CMS software acts somewhat like a public library. It keeps track of all the content on your site, indexing and sorting and organizing everything for your convenience. The content you have on your site may be text, video files, audio files, images and more. Once we set up your CMS, you can go ahead and use it without having to develop any technical skill whatsoever. Your CMS will manage all the content you upload and help you generate reports and manage archives as well. Once you have a good CMS such as Joomla, WordPress or Shopify in place, you don’t have to bother about your content. Your CMS will do it for you.
PHP integrates beautifully with several open-source CMS such as Joomla. This award-winning CMS helps you build powerful online web apps and websites. Joomla allows easy extensibility, which makes it ideal for:
- Small and big web sites, including intranets and extranets.
- Ecommerce and online reservations.
- Online magazines, newspapers, and publications.
- Personal blogs.
- Community-based portals.
Shopify is your best bet if you want to establish an online business quickly and painlessly. Using this fully-managed commerce platform, you can manage inventory, products, orders, customers and discounts easily. Shopify comes with a built-in payment system called Shopify Payments, which allows you to accept online and offline payments. You can also integrate an external payment gateway such as PayPal. Since June 2009, it’s possible to create apps for Shopify stores using the Shopify API platform. Shopify has its own app store – the Shopify App Store – where one can sell these apps.
WordPress is an open-source web software that’s been built by thousands of voluntary community coders. Using WordPress and its many themes and plugins, you can transform your site into a blog or a powerful CMS. Best of all, WordPress has been written using PHP, which makes it easy to use, dynamic and powerful at the same time. WordPress has been used to power many famous celebrity blogs, music sites, news sites and more. In fact, there are many Fortune 500 company sites that use WordPress. For example, Mashable and TechCrunch both run on WordPress. So do the many blogs belonging to The New York Times and CNN.
CodeIgniter is an open source PHP framework that enables rapid development of web apps, and dynamic websites along with PHP. With CodeIgniter in place, we can develop web apps much faster. CodeIgniter provides all the necessary elements along with web app frameworks, so there’s no need to write code from scratch. Plus, there’s a rich set of libraries that allow for tasks that are commonly needed. Since CodeIgniter minimizes code work, we are able to focus on the project and complete development in record time.
As far as PHP frameworks go, CakePHP takes the cake. It’s powerful, robust and extremely flexible. Apart from allowing you to easily build web applications, CakePHP helps you keep your file names and database table names consistent and neatly organized. CakePHP is a dynamic open-source PHP framework that’s perfect for creating web applications. What’s more, CakePHP comes with a massive community and developer support that makes it easy to use it to code web apps.