It has been our experience that PHP projects take much less time to go to market than Java and .NET projects of the same size and complexity. PHP applications have also been found to be significantly faster to run.

With some of the world’s most popular web applications like Facebook and Wikipedia being built on PHP, there is no doubting the fact that PHP is both robust and scalable.

The following are some of the applications we have built in the recent months, using the Zend PHP framework

Learning Management System

A multi-tenanted, SCORM-compliant, industry-specific, corporate Learning Management System, which went from startup to go-live in 10 months flat, using Offshore Agile Development Practices.

This product’s  features include administration tools like managing user registration and profiles, defining roles, setting curricula, charting certification paths, assigning trainers and creating standard and customized reports on individual and group performance.

The LMS also has the option to create SCORM-COMPLIANT courses using its native Authoring tool and to upload third-party SCORM-compliant course packages.

Trainers can assign courses or users can self-enroll for the courses based on specific organizational settings.

Once a learner completes a course, the LMS administers tests based on proficiency requirements, report test results and recommend next steps, thus assuring that organizations meet the rigid certification and compliance requirements of this highly regulated industry.

Keywords: Agile, SCRUM, SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, Zend PHP, Adobe Flash Builder, Flex, MySQL, Fusion Charts, Selenium.

Learning Content Management System

This is a web based application built on a multi-tenanted architecture. It enables Organizations to create their own Courses and publish it to their Learners through the native Learning Management System or extract the courses as SCORM packages for uploading to any suitable Learning Management Systems. Its key components include versatile Content Authoring Tool, Media Manager, QA Manager and Assessment Builder.

Some of the key highlights are:

• Content can be created using predefined templates as well as free-form template
• Option to customize the Course player based on the features required for the course
• Tightly integrated QA Manager with built-in work flow to handle the Courses from its Creation to Publishing stage involving multiple iterations
• Allows multiple Users to create content for the same Course concurrently
• Course specific Roles can be assigned to Users
• Flexible Categorization and Tagging for media assets

Keywords: Agile, SCRUM, SCORM, PHP,  Zend Framework, MySql, Adobe Flash Builder, Flex.

Working with Zend and Flex

As you may observe from the above list, most of these applications have been built with a combination of PHP and Flex. Cordiant Developers have demonstrable experience in seamlessly combining Flex and Zend PHP to build and deploy high-quality enterprise class web applications.