BaseApp Framework is aimed at individual commercial developers or small web application builders who need a starting point.Also if you are a CakePHP User you will find yourself at home with the API. BaseApp was inspired by CakePHP And Codeigniter but tries to do everything under 50 kb.
It has support for most common features available in frameworks these days but achieves all this in under 50 Kb of compressed Code and not MBs of it.
Some Non Technical Feature
- Really really LightWeight( < 50 Kb compressed , around 100 k uncompressed)
- Really really Fast ( cause its Damn Small )
- Almost 0 Configuration
- Short Learning Curve
- Easy to extend
- Nonrestrictive MIT License
Some Technical Features
- PHP 5 with support for new features like autoloading etc
- Fully MVC ( But can be used as a library also )
- CakePHP API ( 80 % ) and Layout
- Active Records and Object Relation Ship Mapping (ORM)
- Model Validation with complementing form helpers
- Data Abstraction Layer with Adodb Support ( Almost all databases supported )
- Extensive Debugging and Exception Handling facilities ( FireBug Support Built in )
- Extendable Cookie and Session Handling
- Search engine friendly and url routing features.
- Ajax Support through Jquery.
You can checkout the project on Google Code .
http://code.google.com/p/baseappframework/
Published on
January 26, 2009 in
Projects.
I had done soem work on JTemplate some time back and written about too. Since lately im not getting time to work on JTemplte , im releasing and alpha release .
More details here – http://www.ngcoders.com/php/jtemplate-joomla-tempaltes-on-drupal.
This is meant for people who are comfortable with Drupal and know what they are doing.
Last week after taking a break from VS+ i built a small mashup i was thinking of sometime now. Its basically top sites list based on keyword and traffic. It quite simple and i myself have started using it to find sites.Go check it out !!! For example you are looking to do some cooking and looking for top cooking sites in the US, or maybe top lyrics sites or maybe just looking to download some illegal movies 
. You can find out new websites which you might have never heard of on popular topic … which u might actually use.
Site is in beta and i am working on it in my free time , if you have ideas and suggestions please feel free to let me know.
VideoSwiper Plus is now online, it is a set of premium services for the original VideoSwiper. This site adds a few important required services to videoswiper making it even better.
Last 5 – 6 weeks been working on it and learned a lot. As this deals with Video’s on a web , not only checked out a lot of Video Scripts but also had to do encoding , thumb nailing etc of videos. Also found out that most Video Scripts out there are badly coded and have bad databases ( No one ever heard of normalization ?? ) . It is based on BaseApp and build on it was fun.Anyhow it was a nice experience , So if you run a Video Site do check it out.
As Joodr is based on Drupal 6 , Neither Nodeprofile or Bio can be used for profile system. So basically I had two options Content Profile and the core profile.module . Both have their own advantages and disadvantages.
So after some digging around and looking how it works Joodr will be using a profile as node system using content profile. The main reason for me choosing this is how the data is stored when using core module and when using profile with CCK . I found profile with CCK is much better. There are other reasons too but overall for a SNS to be as scalable and configurable as possible content profile would be better, for smaller ones core profile should do just fine.
So i will be finally using content profile as profile module for Joodr.
Jtemplate is the first step towards Joodr,It aims at allowing usage of vast number of premium joomla templates with drupal with minimal effort. It is basically a set of Drupal Module and a templating Engine based on phptemplate. The idea is to allow the use of Joomla templates on Drupal as good templates for drupal are missing, drupal templating is expensive and few premium template providers who are there charge really high.Currently you just need to upload the template to the themes directory and just create a dummy template_name.infofile in the directory and the rest everything is taken care by Jtemplate.
Currently a lot of work is still remaining but here are a few features -
- Drupal 6 supported
- Joomla 1.5 templates compatible
- Little to no changes required to Joomla templates
- Support for Template params and Template styes from admin
- Effects and Suckerfish menus supported
- Tested with premium templates from some providers.
Anyhow will be releasing the download soon , am looking for people to help me improve it for now.As everything does not work 
.
You can check a demo here – http://joodr.org/demo/ . The demo is running plain Drupal 6.5 with Jtemplate installed. The template is from rocketheme , with no changes or editing done .
Here is an alpha release as im not getting time to work on it , this is meant for people comfortable with drupal and know what they are doing.
Downloads: 750 File Size: 438.4 KiB
Upload the site structure in the zip file and enable jtemplate module in the admin. To create menus use joomla like names mainmenu,footer,usermenu etc for drupal menu name. Also make the default drupal theme as admin theme from settings.
I have been building sites for a long time. and have user both drupal and Joomla , even built a lite version of Joomla called Limbo CMS long time back. They are both quite good CMS’s. Given the two I would choose drupal any day for myself ( though would never recommend it , cause its still not easy to make it do what u want ) , but am no designer and drupal templates are a big let down, though not hard but templating drupal is just a pain. And template wise Joomla simply is Awesome ( the quality of premium templates available is just so good ) , and its easier to work with for not so technically inclined.
And i have been looking for a good social networking script since last year , and having looked far and wide from paid scripts like phpfox,handshakes,socialengine etc to free ones like Dolphin(not really free),elgg,phpizabi,Joomla+CB. Most of them are really bad and nothing i would build a big site on , its just that bad. There is hope in hosted platforms like ning,socialgo,colletivex but they are hosted , never recommended for anything serious. The only good social networking platform out there is Drupal – has everything i need from scalabilty , security , documentation etc . But again the base install requires hours of tweaking to make it look anything like a normal social script.
So my after taking a few months off from freelancing , ive decided to work on a new personal project called Joodr. It aims to be something like ning but free, based on drupal so that its as flexible,scalable,secure and use Joomla 1.5 templates so your sites look awesome without much effort. The name Joodr i simpley got from Joomla + Drupal , though its a basically a customized install profile of Drupal.
Work has started so keep reading for further updates !!! And if you have any ideas and suggestions let them flow.
RemitRates.com is a site to help people who wish to transfer or send money to India get the best exchange price and helps then decide which money transfer service will get them the most returns. Site compares services like Western union money transfer, XOOM , Paypal etc.
It was built in my free time , just to track exchange rates so i get the best rate when i transfer money. The site is built on my new framework BaseApp, Jquery as the JS framework and BluePrint as the CSS framework.
Though it was a small project its the first time i used BluePrint CSS framework properly, And it Rocks !!! . Total amount of custom css is less than a KB and yet it is a clean looking site with cross browser compatibility. So if you never looked at BluePrint CSS framework before do give it a shot.
I had been really busy lately and one of the reasons was Videoswiper , which was released last month after about 2 months of development.
Videoswiper is a Mass embedding applications which allows Webmasters running video sites to embed Videos on their sites very easily and efficiently.Initial response has been good and with constantly new features being added I think it will do quite well.For more info just go and register yourself an account.
I learned quite a few things while building , which i will share in some other post … so stay tuned.
