Features and advantages of Drupal

By using Drupal CMS, developers can generate user-friendly and search engine friendly websites. We can easily apply different SEO strategies for websites created in Drupal.

Drupal is an open source and free content management software used for developing websites. It is one of the best solution for controlling the web page. Websites created in Drupal are mostly used in the group places like discussion boards, difficult web programs like blogs and eCommerce websites.

Drupal is now one of the popular platform for developing hi-tech websites and provides the best features for the developers. Most commonly Website owners, developers and consumers prefer Drupal for creating a website.

Drupal comes with various techniques which enables developers and designers to save time and money. Using Drupal Programmers can develop a user-friendly web design.


Advantages of selecting Drupal CMS for website development are as follows:

1. Flexible infrastructure which allows to gain benefits from ready made designs from the Drupal.

2. User registration and maintenance, menu management, layout customization, system administration and RSS-Feeds such basic features can be used to create simple sites, single or multi user blogs, forums, community websites.

3. Drupal has simple interface to utilize and the interface can be easily modify.

4. Drupal offers you the basic building blocks of websites in a module-styled format where content and rules can be created quickly. 

5. Site created in Drupal are highly secure.

6. Using Drupal, you can design and develop best web pages that has the same look in all major browsers.

7. Drupal offers various features for mobile based website and it reduces the requirements of arranging the factors on the mobile website.

8. Drupal is considered to be the one of best option for creating a responsive web design which can be viewed on all devices.

9. Anyone can use Drupal which is available free of cost.

Magento eCommerce Software

Magento is an open source e-commerce web application. It comes with a variety of tools, required for building a successful online shop.
Magento comes with a lot of built-in capabilities, such as coupon codes, promo pricing, detailed statistics and SEO options.

The Magento eCommerce system Robust and powerful solution both for small and middle sized companies and large corporations.

Magento offers a free "Community" edition, one should have hands on experience of PHP and html in order to set a customized store live.
While there is lot of help available on forums and offered by the Magneto community but you cannot obtain support from Magento until you purchase the Enterprise edition.

Magento is popular for its use of the EAV model and especially for its use of object-oriented programming (OOP).
Magento is much more versatile and adaptable. We can use Magento for storing large range of data.

Below are some new features that the latest version 1.7 includes:
Auto-generation of Coupon Codes

• New improved layered navigation and price bucket algorithm
• It integrates Zend_Captcha on most customer related forms
• Redesigned and rebuilt HTML 5 iPhone theme.
• System backup
• Rollback functionality
• Manage currency symbols
• VAT number validation
• Brand new REST API.
• Set base prices for each customer group
• Re-factored Indexers
• Cookie Message
• Integrated Bank Transfer payment methods and Cash On Delivery

The Magento Community Edition is available for free download.
The premium, Magento Enterprise Edition solution is available based on an annual subscription.

Symfony -High Performance PHP Framework

Symfony:

Symfony is a one of the most popular php framework.It is very easy to learn, it is fast and flexible. Mostly it is used to build robust applications in short time. 

While learning Symfony one really feels that he is learning 
- Fundamentals of the web 
- Best practices of web development  
- How to use the latest PHP libraries in Symfony or Independently. 

Symfony allows developers to build better and more easily maintainable websites with PHP. 

Key features of Symfony2:

1. Dependency Injection Container for the rescue

One of the common problem faced in big application made in symfony1 was that developers used to make services, classes, helpers all over the code. 
Some were found in main library, few in applications library and some in modules library folders. 
In a big project, finding proper class was not so easy. 
Symfony2 uses Dependency Injection Container, which unifies access to main services, which is very helpful for developer. 

2. Templates are made simple

In Symfony1 the templates were written in pure PHP which was good, because it was eliminating templating engine overhead and was very handy for PHP developers to use their functions. 
Developer used to add “helper functions” on top of template, but Symfony2 by default uses Twig Templating engine (PHP templating is still available). 
Twig is very fast and easy to read and develop. Twig offers inheritance model, and provides many points of extensions. 
Twig is very similar to Django templating engine, which is one of best.

3. Bundles systems

In Symfony2 Bundles systems is one of the core concept.
Project inner mechanisms, third-party plugins and developers code is organized into the bundles. 
Bundles are easy to work with and they can be moved between applications without taking any big effort. 
Another most important and nice concept is Components which is core of the framework. 
Components works independent and can be used outside of Symfony2 in batch processing or even for building your own framework.

4. Doctrine2

By default Doctrine2 is bundled in Symfony. Doctrine2 offers ORM layer, as well as MongoDB mapping.
Doctrine is fast and has different approach on data accessing. Doctrine uses annotations, which is very good  way of keeping metadata configuration in one place.

There are few more good features like:
 - Totally new security layer,
 - Full support to PHP 5.3,
 - Brand new forms component,
 - Independent validators,
 - Code Generators,
 - Support to huge amount of third party bundles,
 - Helpful community.