Open Source Development

Hire Magento Programmer For E-commerce Development Solutions

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi Chowdhary) — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 10:00:00 +0000

Magneto open source ecommerce web application is built using zend application. India has been outsourcing hub for years because of its rich resources whether it is manpower or infrastructure. With advent of mobile and popularity of mobile technologies, mobile users have increased manifolds compared to desktop users. So, people and businesses cannot keep away from the outgrowth of the technology. Open Source technology that has become more popular among all class of users and enterprises of all size because of its openess has a roadmap to sure growth. With websites upsurging every day and online business rising in multiples creating and managing websites is no more simple but challanging.

Today, businesses are facing lots of challanges with their dynamic websites, where thousands of products are added and upgraded on daily basis. Open source technology like Magento is a boon in the ecommerce industry.

Hiring a magento programmer with Open Source Development has many benefits as the company strive to provide the best web service you could possibly have. Get the most out of ecommerce side of a business as our Magento experts are well trained to take each client requirements uniquely with different solutions.

CMS For Ecommerce Website Development

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi Chowdhary) — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:47:00 +0000

Open Source Development since its inception in year 2000 has grown manifolds and remains at the forefront of IT and Web Development industry using latest web development tools and technologies. Web developers, coders, web programmers, open source consultants all are experts in their work and they find solution to every problem, delivering best-fit custom solutions to their clients globally across wide range of industry.

Where online shopping has become way of life, every product needs online presence not only to reach global market but to reach at faster pace. Now comes the question of security for both the seller and buyer. SECURITY remains the topmost question and you need to find answer; before a seller proceeds with development of ecommerce website for selling products and for seller how is going to make purchase online, make transaction through your website.

I would like to share few Content Management System which can help you to reduce your programming effort for developing e-commerce projects:

Magento has been my all time favorite ecommerce platform for e-commerce website because of its modular architecture and flexibility. Ultimate one, Drupal ecommerce module would let you develop your online store free of cost, as Drupal CMS is open source its immense flexibility cannot be denied and easy integration with Paypal, eWAY, Authorize.net, etc makes Drupal complete ecommerce solution option for online storefront developers. Available under the GNU General Public License osCommerce features rich set of out-of-the-box online shopping cart functionality that allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain online stores with minimum effort and with no costs, fees, or limitations involved. Another useful ecommerce solution VirtueMart component available with Joomla and Mambo is used for delivering ecommerce solutions and robust applications to clients to easily manage storefront. Open source free shopping cart software Zen-Cart (branches from osCommerce) is used for online store management that would put your business online and let you accept payments securely.

Yocto CMS

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi Chowdhary) — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:28:00 +0000

I am coming posts I would like to talk about different interesting Content Management Systems (CMS) available. Hey! have you worked with Yocto CMS it is smallest CMS available today, but it is worth using and do not under estimate. Available in two versions v1 and v2, v1 contains all files needed for CMS and v2 contains the installer that can get for you latest version from Internet. Most interesting you need not have to store anything in database, no admin panel is there and all data are stored in flat files. URLs are search engines friendly and is written in PHP.

Other small CMS are: CMS Mini, Nanomus - these CMS do not use database and use flat files to store data. If you are looking for a small website you can use these and remain care free.
If anyone of you have something to share about Yocto CMS you can post as comment.

PHP Developer in India creates Simple Clean Website Using PHP

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi Chowdhary) — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 10:29:00 +0000

Dedicated PHP web developer in India are involved in PHP development services that is developing websites using server side scripting language PHP. Whether it is static website or dynamic website, data driven website for e-commerce business PHP can do wonders. PHP code is embedded in the HTML source code and the source code is compiled on-the-fly.

PHP acts as an interpreter and can be deployed on most of the web servers, operating systems and platforms. There are several benefits of PHP over other languages: most important is it is open source so no tension of license and developers are free to use in their own way. PHP can run on Windows server but is best suited for Linux and Apache as the upfront and ongoing cost is zero which otherwise would be very high in Windows servers. Migration from other language to PHP is easy and does not cost much. Rasmus Lerdorf who developed PHP has really done a great job! You can find free tutorials online, PHP is easy to learn.

Offshore Outsourcing PHP

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi) — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:26:00 +0000

Outsourcing PHP to a leading custom web application development company that too in India would be an added advantage if you want to focus on core activities of your business and get most out from your web development services.

Are you looking for web application development at reduced time and cost?? Open Source Development can help you set up your offshore development center in India with promising resource pool, best infrastructure that would help deliver high end web development solutions on time, quality and time is never compromised.

You can also outsource your custom web application development needs to us and we would revert back with a custom web solutions based on your requirements.

You can Hire Indian developers, Indian programmers - dedicated web developer, software developers and iphone mobile application developer on monthly / hourly contract. We are leaders in offshore IT outsourcing services and provide turnkey custom web PHP solutions.

Virtualization Kills Traditional Outsourcing Model

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi) — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:09:00 +0000

Offshore Outsourcing or Offshoring has been buzzword in the Indian IT industry but the trend is changing in year 2011, why and how??? With companies ready to invest their technology budget in strategic projects and are moving up the value chain this is threatening the traditional outsourcing model. It is not just control over the projects and cost benefits but high quality, cheap and best huge work force, better infrastructure compared to other countries has generated lots and lots of job opportunities in India.

"We consider the U.S. to be the hub of innovation and have recognized that there is enough talent here that can bring tremendous advantages to our existing skill set," HCL America president Shami Khorana said in an email to InformationWeek.

Global staffing would increase to grab the best at minimal investment and timeline remains the bottomline. Change in outsourcing model would effect India and India needs to think for cloud computing for secure growing India. For offshore outsourcing projects free feel to contact Open Source Development.

Custom PHP Web Application Development on LAMP

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi) — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:40:00 +0000

LAMP is a software bundle and acronym for Linux (operating system), Apache HTTP Server, MySQL (database software) and Perl/PHP/Python, that would lead to creation of a web server. At Open Source Development a proven application framework/ MVC framework is available like Zend framework, cakePHP for rapid application development.

At Open source off-the-shelf applications and custom web solutions are available, these include CMS solutions like Joomla, Magento, Drupal that has reduced the operational cost and has simplified web development because several interactive features and management functionality. Template engines that we use are Smarty and PHP.

From our pool of talented web professionals you can hire dedicated developer for enterprises and independent software vendors (ISVs), business that need access to exceptional talent while minimizing risk and operating cost.

With years of experience in custom application development, open Source Development can develop custom web solutions for your business that can give you a competitive edge, improve your bottom line, and significantly reduce your IT costs. We are custom web development company and hiring php web developers / programmers would be find the best fit solution to tailor individual business needs. Our web developers and software programmers provide you the exact customized application and solution that suits your requirement most.

With Open Source Openness Microsoft Rigidity Tends to Flexibility

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi) — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:45:00 +0000

How and Why Open Source Openess is bringing Microsoft close to it?? Are developers and programmers really ready to work in the environment and we can discuss the pros and cons here. No big enetrprise can deny the benefits of virtualization and cloud computing and slowly cloud is going to touch the boundaries of SMBs with a blend of Microsoft and Open Source Technologies.

Both the technologies have their standards and transparency and commitment to build consumer trust by effective collaboration at every level is important.

Designing a new protocol has been trending at Microsoft but using the existing code is implemented at Open Source. Microsoft creation of OpenNebula clouds on Windows Server Hyper-V is a live example of amalgamation of Open Source Microsoft. So, it customers today enjoy heterogeneous mix infrastructures and workloads in their data centers that include a mix of Windows and open source based software.

Open source holds a public and shared software development model and an open source initiative has said "The basic idea behind open source is very simple: When programmers can read, redistribute, and modify the source code for a piece of software, the software evolves. People improve it, people adapt it, people fix bugs. And this can happen at a speed that, if one is used to the slow pace of conventional software development, seems astonishing." - Open Source Initiative

Open Source keeps you away from legal worries and expensive royalties. Also, Linux/Unix if once used for server by a developer then think it would be hard to switch to Windows server. Both the technologies have their own benefits and pitfalls and I respect both equally - Proprietary software or GNU.

PHPFox Social Network Script Solution

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi) — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 07:30:00 +0000

Build your own social networking websites and online community with social network script. Once you join phpFox a large community base is there to help you actively. Source code can be edited easily as it is not encrypted. The Over 1,300 plug-ins/ mods are available for purchase or download. Remember phpFox is not free; is a featured packed social networking solution.

Also, the website you create using PHPFox CMS is search engine friendly. Also you are given full control of website layout through AdminCP. Multilingual facility is another important feature offered through AdminCP that lets you run the community in the language of your choice as well as include other languages of your choice as you want. Various monetizing tools are available with the phpFox product that would help you in integrating online payment options. You can monetize your social network with our advanced ad campaigns that gives you full control to who can view each specific ad based on a users location, gender and even their age group. Option to sponsor items on the site is made available and to sell marketplace listings. In order to access various modules and features user can upgrade to subscription plans by paying charges. For mobile version of the website default theme is available free of cost with phpFox product that would provide mobile users easy access to website on mobile devices. Facebook connect and scalability are other important features that a social networking website should have and is easily available with phpFox product.

For social networking website development you can call us at : +1 120 4030001 or drop us an email at: solutions@icreon.com

Moodle Learning Management System

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi) — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:01:00 +0000

Originally created by Martin Dougiamas to help educators create online courses with a focus on interaction and collaborative construction of content, Moodle is continually evolving.

Moodle (abbreviation for Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment) is a free source e-learning software platform, also known as a Course Management System,
Learning Management System, or Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). As of October 2010 it had a user base of 49,952 registered and verified sites, serving 37
million users in 3.7 million courses.

The Moodle software is supported is : http://moodle.org/

Moodle Service Network: http://moodle.com/

Moodle is open source and so is free to use. It is widely used by universities, schools, companies and independent teachers, educators willing to to create quality
online courses. Important features of Moodle are: Online calendar, assignment submission, moodle instant messages, discussion forum, grading, files download, wiki, online quiz and online news and announcement.

Moodle support plug-ins for specific functionality like activities (word game/ math game), question types, content filter. Also, new modules can be added to Moodle using PHP. Moodle includes the TCPDF library by default that allows the generation of PDF documents from pages.
Deployment of Moodle requires technical proficiency. Free Moodle hosting providers allow create Moodle-based online classes without its server knowledge or installation and paid providers may provide more flexibility in customization and content-development.
You can run Moodle on any system that supports PHP without modification. Moodle's interoperability features include: authentication, enrollment, quizzes and quiz questions, resources, integration with other CMS, syndication.

Joomla VirtueMart E-Commerce Development

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi) — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 11:37:00 +0000

Virtuemart is best for excellent shopping cart solutions. Virtuemart is not standalone e-commerce solution, it is add-on and must be used with Joomla or Mambo CMS. The extensible CMS Joomla/Mambo can be upgraded by adding and installing 3rd party extension VirtueMart. VirtueMart developers at Open Source Development provide you with a full range of Joomla and VirtueMart Customization services. Virtuemart e-commerce development service includes consultancy, development, integration, training and support.

VirtuMart is among top 10 Joomla components, it is most successful CMS add-on for shopping cart because of the following features: it is light weight; fast and secure; object oriented and clean; easy to learn, maintain and extend. VirtueMart developers provide you with a full range of Joomla and VirtueMart Customization services. Our Service includes consultancy, development, integration, training and support.

The industry we have successful delivered solutions are : real estate, enetrtainment, tarvel, B2B, B2C, education. Solutions provided help in effectively managing stock management, order management, sales management, billing and shipping.

Features of VirtueMart in Detail:

General features available with VirtueMart are multiple currencies, multiple languages, flexible tax models with multiple options for tax calculations, https encryption, shipping address management, options to view past shopping history and also there is option available to customers to manage user accounts.
Product Catalogue features include management option for unlimited products and categories; powerful and user friendly web-administration interface, advance search features, product rating and testimonials, notifications.

Administration module features include multiple files attribution and multiple images attribution, multiple product attributions, stock level control, statistics, order management, history management, managing currencies, also reporting of products.
Payment module features include all credit card processing that would include Google Checkout, Paypal, PayMate, and others.

Shipping Modules features are flexible shipping carriers and rates configuration, other shipping modules available, live shipping rates availability.

Custom eCommerce Magento CMS Development

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi) — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 11:34:00 +0000

Open Source Development is an expert in providing eCommerce solutions to wide range of industries in Australia. Business focused e-commerce solutions provided by our e-commerce web developers designers have resulted our customer's online business grown manifolds. Our team of dedicated php developers, Joomla developers, Mambo developers, e-commerce designer developers, open source consultants’ work in close coordination and in consultation with our customers throughout the project delivery providing optimum customer service and ensuring service delivery is done on time and quality standards are maintained throughout.

Starting from designing to developing a e-commerce shopping cart to integration of secure payment gateway and then moving to driving traffic (doing SEO) of the e-commerce storefront can all done by us.

Our magento CMS development and customization services include: magento themes, Payment Gateway Integration, Shipping Method Integration or Configuration, Buttons and Widgets, Custom Landing Page Design and lot more.

Multi-Site, Multi-Domain, Multi-lingual Web Sites

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi) — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:17:00 +0000

I was wondering what and how these multi-sites, multi-domain and multi-langauge sites actually differ.

First of all I will talk about multiple sites and multi-sites.

In Multiple Sites, apache control the one to many relationships between a single IP and many "websites" using virtual hosts.

For Multisite deployment Drupal approach is best where the same codebase and database to host multiple instances of drupal is used.

I have read the write-up:

http://lno.lternet.edu/node/192
http://drupal.org/node/1105042

Do the development of these sites have to do with creating a sub-directories, sub-folders or sub-domain and how does these approach effect SEO??

Could anyone please share views or personal experience on this, your comments are awaited. Keep the ball rolling!

White Label Website Development

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi) — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:59:00 +0000

Let us first of all discuss what is a White Label Website/Product/Service??

A product or service produced by one company that is the producer that the other companies (the marketers) rebrand to make it appear as if they made it is a white label product or service.

A white-labeled website is eCommerce website which sells the products online just like the main site but, under a different domain name, brand or company name. Different storefronts are used to sell same products and services to different set of audience. Do not get confused with affiliate websites, they carry some traits of the producer.

White label sites are good from SEO point and would help your website gain ranking, as with each specific keyword rich domain you can also focus on targeted keywords. If your eCommerce storefront requires a local presence in a particular geographical area, then another brand or website which is a white label can be created having the local touch focused on localized audience. This will also help in ranking in geo-specific search engines and local search engines.

Get a white label website designed and developed for promotion of your products and services locally and globally. White Label Website Development

Dynamic Websites Development

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi) — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 07:35:00 +0000

Your business success depends on your websites look and feel, easy of accessibility, attractiveness, easy navigation, quick search options and lot more. The dynamic website are built with the purpose of automation. The two main dynamic activities involved are code and content. A dynamic website can operate more effectively, be built more efficiently and is easier to maintain, update and expand. Software systems available to generate dynamic web sites are Java Server Pages (JSP), the PHP, Perl, Python, and Ruby programming languages, ASP.NET, Active Server Pages (ASP), ColdFusion (CFML) and more. Plug-ins like Microsoft Silverlight, Adobe Flash, Adobe Shockwave or applets written in Java, Dynamic HTML are available for real time element updating within web pages.

Dynamic code
Web page with dynamic code is built dynamically on the fly using programming language on the particular web page. Codes and routines on the web page are grouped together and call information from a database and assemble in a pre-defined format to present the reader. Dynamic code can interact with user by reading cookies, session variables, history.

Dynamic content

Dynamic content is offered in plain view and the Variable content is displayed dynamically on the fly based on specific criteria, generally by fetching content stored in a database. It is concerned with content change at particular point of time and display of messages, text, images on the web page. Examples are RSS sites, product driven site where a user enters product content in search and dynamically result is displayed.

PHP is one of the best programming languages used in developing powerful web sites and dynamic applications. Open Source Development understands the essentials of your business. Your website needs to load quickly, be found easily (visitors and search engines), be linked well (pilots) and generate real business leads (maximize ROI). PHP Development Company provides professional, high quality web development, dynamic web solutions to clientele globally. Our dynamic website development portfolio includes customized web solutions from various industries like real estates, legal, manufacturers, pharmaceuticals, entertainment, education, travel, mobile, IT.

The dynamic page generation was made possible by the Common Gateway Interface (CGI), stable in 1993. Also, SSI is a direct approach to handle server-side scripts at web servers. Flexibility, stability, automatic updation can be provided to dynamic websites using PHP and HTML along with CMS. Dynamic websites may be client-side server scripting or may be server-side scripting.

Client-side scripting and Content Creation

Client-side scripting languages like Java script, DHTML and Flash technologies use rich interfaced pages technology to generate client side content on the user computer . A web browser retrives page from server, processes code on the page and displays page redable content.

Server-side scripting and Content Creation

Server-side scripting the program running on web server that can change content on various web page.

Examples of dynamic websites are product and service based sites like e-commerce sites, auction sites, content based sites selling advertising space. Hire dynamic website developers to cut your business operation cost and to get highest quality custom web application development services.

Ecommerce Shopping Cart Solutions

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi) — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 06:25:00 +0000

Enjoy the endless features and functionality of your shopping cart.

For a growing business small or large, e-commerce websites allow your company to market products or services at affordable price. E-commerce website design end e-commerce website Development Company offers professional web design, quality web development and search engine optimization all together for your business growth so that you are found and reached by your potential customers and also visible in search engine result pages for respective searches.

E-commerce web development company design and develop e-commerce shopping carts and offers best e-commerce web solutions for business growth. The online shopping carts and websites developed are easy to navigate, simple to manage and allow your company to sell products or services online. Each website is professionally designed & programmed to match your business' needs & goals.

E-commerce website development team is ready to help your company find a custom ecommerce web solution for your business website needs. Web developers and designers work together to come up with best custom web solutions. They work hard to develop custom web application solutions that will best suit your business needs. These ecommerce websites are built to perform and provide results that make for a successful website.

E-commerce shopping cart Development Company aims to provide the best professional e-Commerce web design solutions at an affordable price. Do not hurry in choosing a company as you can find number of e-commerce development companies online. The best of all provide quality web solutions with features such as unlimited products and categories, proper information on the website before you proceed to promise security and ease, a secure one page checkout, these professional e-commerce web development companies make online transactions easy for both website owners and customers. From selling a product or subscription, to taking payments for a service, e-commerce design development team can develop the custom eCommerce website perfect for your business. There's no limit to what your eCommerce site can achieve providing your products or services online.

Also these companies have e-commerce SEO team generally that ensure visitors will find your website and products, making your website a success. Experience of these companies let them place your website in top ten search results for most competitive keywords. Ultimate result is increase in traffic and new potential customers coming to online shopping store; visitors’ patterns can also be analyzed and website's user experience can be optimized with sales as top priority. So, if you are planning to have your own online shopping store for your business then, consult a shopping cart or e-commerce application development company for best results.

Professional E-commerce Website Development and Web Design

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi) — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 09:11:00 +0000

Get an e-commerce development service at affordable price by custom web application Development Company. From selling product and services online at the storefront, to sending newsletters, adding new products, updating existing ones, running promotions on the e-commerce shopping cart to complete website tracking and analysis all can be done with ease if your website is custom developed and optimized to best fit your business needs.

Custom web application Development Company provides easy, safe and secure custom web solution. Open Source Development e-commerce content management system is customized for each client giving you the control you need to run your website efficiently. Open Source Development makes the e-commerce websites from both customers and owner perspective making online transaction safe, secure and navigation easy with lesser steps. Website developed are interactive, easy to maintain, track, update. Also, e-commerce SEO service will make your e-commerce website rank in top 10 for the most competitive keywords. This will help your visitors find your business easily and improve sales.

Open Source Development, an e-commerce website development company can push the limit of your e-commerce website. Starting from getting client's vision behind developing e-commerce storefront, then moving to fulfilling it by gathering all relevant information like audience, demography, competitors our e-commerce web site designers developers create a website that is visually appealing. Throughout the development process there is constant communication between designer, client, developer. The developed website should effectively communicate what client means, fulfill his business needs. Then in the testing phase we assure that website's fast-loading graphics are created with it search engine friendly HTML coding. Using a custom shopping cart applications like Zen-cart, X-cart, Magento and osCommerce the content given by client that is data about products and services are integrated with shopping cart system. Other than e-commerce website development open source development offers e-commerce website hosting also.

Open Source XML

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi) — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 05:51:00 +0000

Source: http://www.wdvl.com/Authoring/Languages/XML/XMLFamily/BigPicture/bigpix20a.html

PHP Developer Salary

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi) — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:09:00 +0000

Are you stepping into web development job and have several questions in your mind related to salary structure. Whether you are a newbie or an experienced web developer and if you moving up in your profession to higher profile what salry do you expect and what in general web developer, php developer, php programming is drawing??? There are lots of website that offer day-to-day salary updates. Know about the current salary package of a PHP MySQL programmer, php developer in India. Here you can find list of websites with detail of php developer's salary:

http://www.indeed.com/salary/PHP-Developer.html
http://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/php-developer-salary-SRCH_KO0,13.htm
http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=PHP_Developer/Salary
http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/jobs/uk/php%20developer.do

CSS Tricks for a Website Design

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi) — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 10:27:00 +0000

Listed below are 10 CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) tricks that will help you improve your web designs.

1. Image gallery of your website should provide users with image thumbnail image with just mouse hover, this also helps to load the image gallery fast.
2. Using simple CSS tricks organize and style index files to easy deal with lots of glossary terms.
3. Create alert box to display important content at the same draw user attention by using neat CSS.
4. CSS sliding sprite window to show different images in different state of link.
5. Using CSS solely you can create gradient effects on text.
6. Use sliding image gallery especially for a photographer’s website to organize images on your website. The sliding image gallery may be horizontal or vertical.
7. Round corner in CSS is recommended for websites. Greg Johnson created web apps to automate the process. All you need to do is create anti-aliased corners without using images or javascript.
8. Pure CSS line graph can be created by using CSS to create a line graph.
9. Pure CSS Accordion Effect can be produced easily with JavaScript frameworks but can now be achieved using CSS.
10. CSS Rollover Buttons - With rollovers you can add visual feedback to your website’s buttons; its look is similar to sliding sprite window of course mechanics behind is different. As a visitor moves their mouse over a rollover button, it changes to indicate that it’s click-able.

PHP Framework for Website Development

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi) — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 07:32:00 +0000

Use of PHP framework will secure, ease, clean and quicken website development. PHP framework is a common platform that will help us develop web applications. Use of framework will save lots of time as developer need not repeat same set of code again and again and connection between database and application can be easily established that helps to build Rapid Applications (RAD). The PHP operates on Model View Controller (MVC) architecture where M stands for raw data, V for actual data being viewed, C for controller domain logic that handles data exchange between database and user interface. PHP frameworks come with variety of options and functions bundled with that may be best of one application but not for another.

PHP Frameworks should offer database support, community support, documentation support, model view controller architecture. You need to assure that the database and web server is compatible with the framework you've chosen. With varying degree of preferences and requirement PHP framework choice will differ. Modern PHP frameworks have adopted the convention over configuration approach (decrease the number of decisions needed to be made in order to gain simplicity without losing flexibility) to increase the speed for developing web applications.

Reviewing the Frameworks:

Yii PHP Framework –is a high-performance component-based PHP framework that's a good choice for developing large scale apps. It's loaded with great features and was written in OOP (which requires PHP 5 and above).

ash.MVC

Kohana – is a PHP5 framework that offers documentation and community support and comes with multiple session drivers.

CodeIgniter – offers toolkit to create full-featured web applications. It is powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint.
Akelos - framework is based on the MVC (Model View Controller) and favors "convention over configuration".

CakePHP – rapid development framework enables PHP users at all levels to rapidly develop robust web applications. By letting developer write less code CakePHP reduces development costs.

Zend Framework - written strictly in PHP 5, is OOPs framework. Its loose architecture lets you use various Zend components to enhance your applications functionality.

Symfony - PHP Framework holds a library of various classes written in PHP 5. Architecture, useful components and excellent tools are provided for creating complex web apps.

Prado - is a component-based and event-driven programming framework that helps you build applications based on PHP 5; It is rapid application development framework based on OOPs concept.

DIY -

Solar Framework - is a PHP 5 framework for web application development. It is fully name-spaced and uses enterprise application design patterns, with built-in support for localization and configuration at all levels.

Maintainable - PHP Framework was formally built to host its creators personal projects. However, it was further released to open source. Like any framework, it's certainly not appropriate for every application. It's designed primarily for use with small-to-mid-sized applications.

Seagull - is a mature OOP framework for building web, command line and GUI applications. Licensed under BSD, the project allows PHP developers to easily integrate and manage code resources, and build complex applications quickly.

Fuse – is a Model View Controller framework for PHP. Taking influence from other web frameworks; such as Ruby on Rails (RoR) and CakePHP, then adding in custom, intuitive features of our own design, FUSE has developed into a robust, stable platform for MVC development using object oriented PHP.

AjaxAC - is an open-source framework written in PHP, used to develop/create/generate AJAX applications. The fundamental idea behind AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML) is to use the XMLHttpRequest object to change a web page state using background HTTP sub-requests without reloading the entire page. It is released under the terms of the Apache License v2.0.

Phocoa - (pronounced faux-ko) is PHP framework for developing web applications. PHOCOA's primary intent is to make web application development in PHP easier, faster, and of higher-quality.

Limb - is an OpenSource (LGPL) PHP framework mostly aimed for rapid web application prototyping and development. The current actively developed branch of framework is Limb3 (there is also Limb2 but it's not maintained anymore).

ZooP - has been in development since 2001 and in use for the last 6 years in a number of different production environments. While it predates the recent proliferation of PHP frameworks, it's based on solid MVC principles, including separation of display, logic, and data layers. It's designed to be efficient, modular, and extensible; striking a balance between lightweight and fully-featured.

BlueShoes - is a comprehensive application framework and content management system. It is written in the widely used web-scripting language PHP. BlueShoes offers excellent support for the popular MySQL database as well as support for Oracle and MSSQL.

Qcodo - Qcodo Development Framework is an open-source PHP framework that focuses on freeing developers from unnecessary, tedious, and mundane coding.
Recess - is a RESTful PHP framework that provides a fun and enjoyable developmental experience for beginners and seasoned developers alike. Recess is fast, light-weight, and has a very small footprint ideal for LAMP development and drag-and-drop deployment to shared hosts.

PHPDevShell - provides a shell for your code to run in. It was developed from the ground up to be fast, secure and to provide immediate results for the developer using it. Simply plug your own PHP scripts into PHPDevShell’s secure menu system, or take the extra step and develop your own plug-ins for PHPDevShell.

ez Components
WASP
WACT
QPHP

So choose the right PHP framework from the large list available that best-fits your application development requirement. Implementing these PHP frameworks provide the developer more in terms of usability, security, speed, and stability by reducing overall workload and speeding up the coding and development process, eliminating the need to code repetitively. If you are looking for smooth running web applications, or bespoke php development using lightweight or other PHP frameworks like cake PHP, Zend feel free to contact us, or get a free quote.

PHP MySQL Software Programming Tips

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi) — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 06:48:00 +0000

Learning has been simplified with lots of learning tools available and most popular of all is Internet where a user can not only learn but also can surfer as per ones need and can find related stuff, immense flexibility! Online learning is fast, cheaper and offers wider range making Internet the ultimate place to learn.
Coming to PHP mySQL programming for beginners; you can find lots of PHP free e-books online. PHP/MySQL Programming for the Absolute Beginner by Andy Harris is one of the many available.

Gradually you will acquire programming skills that is necessary for practical programming applications and will also learn how these software skills can be put to use in real world scenarios and apply them to the next programming language you tackle.

First of all you need to become familiar with PHP environment, then set of functions, variables, arrays, loops. PHP is closely related to HTML and tied to MySQL database for connectivity. PHP is used today for developing many web applications, also used in many scripts and web projects; I have already discussed in my previous post salient features of PHP.

PHP Tips to Improve Your Programming:

SQL injection cheat sheet: Follow the best practices mentioned in the SQL injection (security exploit) sheet to avoid scripting attacks.

PHP’s List of Comparison Operators: PHP Programmers should be very well familiar with use of PHP comparison operators.

Follow Shortcuts to improve speed and performance: This can be achieved by making code simpler and smaller.

Follow a control structure that by dropping a brackets in single expression wherever possible. Learning a language will lead to achieve the same result in several ways.

Favour str_replace() over ereg_replace() and preg_replace(): When using regular expression use of ereg_replace() and preg_replace() is preferred as it is much faster than str_replace().str_replace()11 is much more efficient (61% more) than regular expressions at replacing strings .

Use of ternary operator frees up line space and makes your code less cluttered, making it easier to scan.

Use Memcached for efficient database caching.

Use PHP framework like cakePHP to reduce time spent to develop a website.

Use the error suppression operator correctly.

Switching isset for strlen makes calls about five times faster.

Irrespective of the platform you are working php knowledge has become must-know for all developers. PHP developers should learn and use every time they program the techniques listed above. These tips will speed up not only a developer’s proficiency but also make the code much more responsive, cleaner and more optimized for performance. Good Luck!

So, I am sure beginners are ready to ready to roll up their sleeves and get their hands dirty with the language.

Open Source E-Commerce Shopping Cart Solutions

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi) — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 07:34:00 +0000

Chossing a shopping cart from the many shopping cart available in the market complete depends on you. What shopping cart features you need for your website. In this post I will discuss of the open source shopping acrts that provides you access to your source code to modify it as per your specific needs and customize to your needs. The shopping carts I will be discussing are PHP/MySQL that run on both Linux and Windows servers and are easily affordable. Pay-per-month shopping carts are of less value as they are expensive compared to those I will highlighting.

In general all shopping carts share the following common features:

Customer Management
Product Management
Payment Modules
Shipping Modules
Order Receipt Emails
Ability to use SSL secure layers for ordering process

Features that vary from shopping cart to shopping cart are:

Time it takes to modify the cart to look like a current web design
WYSIWYG ability to modify product descriptions using different fonts, colors, etc.
Ability to import/export from Excel spreadsheet
Wholesale/Reseller Pricing

What shopping cart features you need based on that you can choose from the shopping carts I will be discussing.

Magento

Magento shopping cart is based on latest PHP5 OOPs standards and Zend framework.

Advantages The company behind Magento is Varian that keeps updating code and fixing bugs. Magento comes with good collection of default template and multi-store capable.

Disadvantages With very limited technical documentation it makes programming modification (except graphical changes) and customization very difficult. Also, Magento is very complicated and heavily layered so much more time and higher budget is required for customization. As the code is complicated and it is heavily layered this makes Magento run slow.

Oscommerce MS 2.2

oscommerce.com is maintaining Oscommerce shopping cart. Oscommerce also forms the basis for both Zen Cart and CRE Loaded.

Advantages Oscommerce is simple so it runs well through so forms the backbone of basics shopping carts. It has most available number of modifications and contributions. It is up to date with MySQL 5 and PHP 5 because of its latest security update.

Disadvantages To install Oscommerce all contribution (add-ons) for your shopping cart is time consuming and very costly.

Also, absence of graphic template system makes design modification very difficult.

CRE Loaded Chain Reaction Edition of Oscommerce

Oscommerce forms the basis of CRE Loaded. 3 versions of CRE Loaded is available of which regualr is free; Pro adds credit card encryption and better product attribute support and B2B adds separate price level support. CRE Loaded comes with many more contributions installed and most popular and used of all is Easy Populate which lets you populate your database from various sources (template system, administrator access levels, an affiliate manager, an Excel file, coupon codes). Also, the Oscommerce templating systems installed allows you to more easily integrate a design into the system and control which information boxes show on the left and right columns.

Advantages Many more contributions from Oscommerce already installed.

Disadvantages You will find buggy code for few modules like vendor shipping. Contributions from oscommerce more difficult to install compared to CRE Loaded own.

Zen Cart

Zen Cart features are based on Oscommerce but to use these need to be converted to Zen Cart. The wide array of Zen Cart features are product attributes managers, built in coupon system, ability to select what credit cards you accept, html editor for regular web page contents, template system.

Advantages Many contributions from Oscommerce are installed by default; Oscommerce is stable and requires no licensing fees.

Disadvantages As thera re many contributions admin arae becomes very disordered. To use Oscommerce contributions they need to be converted to Zen Cart.

X-Cart

X-cart is a commercial package and is most competitively priced and easy to modify.

Advantages Commercially supported and very few bugs. It uses Smarty Templates system.

Disadvantages Licensing fees

OSC Max

With many useful contributions installed this is best version of Oscommerce. It is easy to use as default Oscommerce installation.

Advantages No licensing fees; contributions installed are very useful; wholesale/reseller pricing module already installed
and is well-documented.

Disadvantages Has Personal preference disadvantage.

Joomla and Virtuemart

On the Virtuemart website they have a combined installer that installs Virtuemart with Joomla. This is the solution you would want if you have to have your CMS (Content Management System) combined with your shopping cart.

Advantages Virtuemart combines well with Joomla CMS and it is easy to install and posseses the basic shopping cart features.

Disadvantages Less add-on available compared to other shopping cart and high-end shopping cart features are missing here.

It is good to start with loaded versions - Zencart, CRE Loaded, or OSCmax to get out best for your shopping cart in less money and less time.

Offshore PHP Software Development

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi) — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 12:23:00 +0000

Offshoring is company's business process relocation from one country to another with the motive of cost reducation and comparative advantage and at the same time this international trade creates value for other country. India remains first offshoring destination for major global firms because of large pool of english speaking people and technically proficient manpower.

Custom development company in India helps businesses to build the robust, secure and versatile web applications in an effective and professional manner. These companies strictly follow software development practices and the web development methodologies revolve around agile, scrum, spiral model and various delivery models that best fits client's requirement.

India is heading in offshore PHP software development because of its commitment to quality, vast domain expertise, fast communication channel, one stop solution and above all its cost effective solution and quicker turnaround time. The web development process provides custom application solutions that are tailored to best fit every clients requirement at the same time increase ROI and custom satisfaction. Custom development also helps reduce cost and shorten product development cycle.

Custom Development Company India

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi) — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:04:00 +0000

The emerging businesses experience the innovation with custom development company in India. These custom development companies India are experts in web design, custom web applications offering custom web application solutions.

Custom development companies in India are putting their best to become as one of top notch providers of "next generation web development" in almost all the popular web technology. Offshore outsourcing has been the buzz word in IT industry. Offshore php software development is more prevalent compared to Microsoft software development because of several salient features of open source technology (most important of all open source code).

Open source development company cater services ranging from SMB's to large enterprises on open source technologies such as php software development, ROR development, web designing, custom application development, ecommerce solutions, community portal development, cms component development, Magento installation and open source consulting by open source consultants. Core competencies of these companies lies in custom web development, php web programming, content management system, application development, flash ajax game development, e-commerce web design solutions.

Technology driven solutions are based on LAMP and other open source technologies. The web developers and web programmers follow proven technologies throughout application development cycle to deliver bespoke end solution. Also, these companies ensure that their customers get constant support for application life cycle management.

If you would like to contact us, you can fill the form available on our official web site for free web development quote.