Sharekna - Video & Photo Sharing for the Arab World. Launched

Tuesday, March 18. 2008

Today we [soft] launched the alpha [and buggy] version of Sharekna.com, The free online Video and Photo sharing for the Arab world.

From a technical point of view, the site was built using CodeIgniter as an underlying framework, I had to modify some parts of the core to ease parts of handling Arabic and to have nice Arabic URLs ala Wikipedia style. CodeIgniter is not the greatest framework, but I would really recommend it for the first MVC encounter, especially if you have less experienced developers working on a project. The way it separates M from V from C is nice and easy to grasp even if the developer has no OOP experience. The thing that we did to a great degree is completely re sturcture the way CodeIgniter handles views. I hate how that was handled, and changed it to a more component/block based templating that proved to be a great time savior for our CSS/(x)HTML dude. The 2 other things I really hate about CodeIgniter are the way (GET & POST) are handled and the freakin disgusting DB layer that comes with it.

Another interesting thing we used was eZ Components (EZC), which to me is cleanest/most stable PHP code I have seen to date. EZC was integrated in CodeIgniter as a helper and it became very easy to load (autoload) EZC from within CodeIgniter. EZC was mainly used for image manipulation, and I'm very satisfied with the results.

Posted by Ammar Ibrahim in Business, PHP, IT & computers at 18:08 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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Looks very promising. Well done

It doesn't have embed code when it displays videos. You know that's the most important feature of a viral video site.

Bug all in all looks good. Thanks for sharing

#1 Qwaider قويدر (Homepage) on 2008-03-19 02:51 (Reply)

Cool, and good luck.
It'll be interesting though to see how will you try to differentiate yourself from other competitors such as Ikbis.

#2 za3tar (Homepage) on 2008-03-19 13:41 (Reply)

thank you very mutch

#3 ahmed sayed on 2008-05-22 11:35 (Reply)

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