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I have been looking for a rapid development framework for PHP for a little while now and stumbled upon CakePHP. The CakePHP web site describes the frame work as follows:
Cake is a rapid development framework for PHP which uses commonly known design patterns like ActiveRecord, Association Data Mapping, Front Controller and MVC. Our primary goal is to provide a structured framework that enables PHP users at all levels to rapidly develop robust web applications, without any loss to flexibility.
I am currently using the framework on a production project and have been very happy with the way everything is organized and how it all relates. It is starting to make sense to me and I am very happy so far with my choice. Everyone says the framework is basically Rails for PHP (ever heard of Ruby on Rails?). Since I have never programmed in Ruby (nothing extravagant anyway), nor used the Rails framework with Ruby, I cannot validate this comment but will take everyone’s word for it.
I have had some people ask me (you know who you are) and seen others asked in the #cakephp IRC channel on irc.freenode.net why people don’t just use Ruby on Rails. My answer to that is simple, to me anyway: I have been using PHP since around late 1999 and have been happy with it ever since. My code is getting better and better, more efficient, better organized, etc. I don’t have time right now in my life to learn a new programming language and a development framework. I need to use something now that will allow me to turn out applications and robust dynamic sites with the quickness.
One thing I really like about CakePHP is the user/developer community. There is a lot of user contributed code available for use at the CakePHP Bakery. The range of examples and working applications on that site is enormous (huge-mongous?). I have found a lot of examples that I have been able to include into the site I am currently working on and some things I hope to implement after launch.
Again, I have been very happy with my CakePHP experiences thus far and hope that trend continues. I will be blogging about my experiences, and possibly be making notes in my blog for my own future reference, from here on. If you’re a PHP developer and are itching to try something new to develop sites and applications quicker and with more reusable code, I would give CakePHP a try. It may be worth it in the long run.
Until next time…
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