cakePHP.org— A Major milestone of the PHP framework CakePHP was just released, along with a new website. Cake is similar to Ruby on Rails in MVC patterning (Model View Controller), but is 100% PHP.
May 2, 2006View in Crawl 4
Well, digging can really jam a site. here is a mirror for the manual: <a class="user" href="http://manual.rd11.org/">http://manual.rd11.org/</a>As far as how it compares with symfony (which is php5 only), check out <a class="user" href="http://www.h3rald.com/blog/view/23/">http://www.h3rald.com/blog/view/23/</a>CodeIgniter as far as i know does not have Association Data Mapping / ORM which is something that is very nice in rails style frameworks. I think its a little further behind in development, but they might get there soon. Right now I think Cake has one of the larger communities, so there is a lot of code coming out in Open Source. At the end of the day it comes down to your style and what you like best. Give them all a try and see what fits for you. Most of the latest frameworks have a 15 minute get started, so it should not take too long to see which one you prefer. I must say that having a framework is a nice thing and brings a lot more ease and structure to PHP.
> Wasn't rails originally developed in PHP before the guy found ruby?Yes. Actually DHH (the creator of Rails) had been a professional PHP coder for 4 or 5 years. The project they were working on, they tried to do it in PHP and it just didn't cut it. They then did it in Ruby and the rest is history.
symfony is far far far better in my opinion. it doesn't try to copy rails, it takes the best parts of a few approaches and a major plus is it uses Propel - of course Zends killer feature is the php port of lucene... we just need them to implement delete.but yeah i've tried a number of different frameworks including rails and cake and when i've *needed* a framework i've stuck with symfony
I have tried cake, Trax, and rails. Love them all. Rails seems excellent, but hosting requirments are a pain in the arse.Which is better from a factual stand point trax or cake? or is this a Pepsi vs Coke debate that I am starting?
gwooMay 3, 2006
Well, digging can really jam a site. here is a mirror for the manual: <a class="user" href="http://manual.rd11.org/">http://manual.rd11.org/</a>As far as how it compares with symfony (which is php5 only), check out <a class="user" href="http://www.h3rald.com/blog/view/23/">http://www.h3rald.com/blog/view/23/</a>CodeIgniter as far as i know does not have Association Data Mapping / ORM which is something that is very nice in rails style frameworks. I think its a little further behind in development, but they might get there soon. Right now I think Cake has one of the larger communities, so there is a lot of code coming out in Open Source. At the end of the day it comes down to your style and what you like best. Give them all a try and see what fits for you. Most of the latest frameworks have a 15 minute get started, so it should not take too long to see which one you prefer. I must say that having a framework is a nice thing and brings a lot more ease and structure to PHP.
gwooMay 3, 2006
mod_rewrite is not required, but does make things look nicer
jesusphreakMay 3, 2006
> Wasn't rails originally developed in PHP before the guy found ruby?Yes. Actually DHH (the creator of Rails) had been a professional PHP coder for 4 or 5 years. The project they were working on, they tried to do it in PHP and it just didn't cut it. They then did it in Ruby and the rest is history.
takteekMay 3, 2006
*sigh* Even a website that offers a framework for making websites is suffering from the digg effect.Should have used cupcakes.
klaruzMay 3, 2006
How does doing associations across multiple DBs affect performance?
cysseroMay 3, 2006
Cause he's racing and pacing and plotting the course,
rubbishkMay 3, 2006
symfony is far far far better in my opinion. it doesn't try to copy rails, it takes the best parts of a few approaches and a major plus is it uses Propel - of course Zends killer feature is the php port of lucene... we just need them to implement delete.but yeah i've tried a number of different frameworks including rails and cake and when i've *needed* a framework i've stuck with symfony
davehonsvickOct 20, 2006
I have tried cake, Trax, and rails. Love them all. Rails seems excellent, but hosting requirments are a pain in the arse.Which is better from a factual stand point trax or cake? or is this a Pepsi vs Coke debate that I am starting?