My first framework after developing with PHP for 4-5 years was CodeIgniter, which I’ve been using for a while and have already dugg into it’s core to go on and make a lite version for personal use. For the past year or two I’ve been hearing a lot about CakePHP framework and have finally found some time to play around with it.
After spending 3 hours last night with the Cake’s online manual (although skipping basic stuff) and reading through the blog tutorial, I have to say I was impressed with CakePHP. Although the convensions could be somewhat difficult for new comers to remember, I have to agree that they are very useful and increase the development speed.
I have also enjoyed their support for third party classes (with javascript includes too!), very well commented API and plugin support:
CakePHP allows you to set up a combination of controllers, models, and views and release them as a packaged application plugin that others can use in their CakePHP applications.
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