Using CakePhp

[kev woodman]

Does anyone have any experience of the CakePhp framework and if so what do you think of it?

[harry]

Till now, i havn't used CakePhp, but i have read somewhere that it is the first frameworks to port the RAD (Rapid Application Development) philosophy.

Due to following features it has become the most popular in PHP programming world :
* It is one of the smallest frameworks available: less than 300KB in a .zip archive.
* CakePHP applications can be run both on PHP4 and PHP5.
* A very useful command line script called as “bake” generate code automatically.
* also have enhanced support for AJAX.

[kev woodman]

All very true - it's a PHP Rails-A-Like

This is my third day of using it I'm just interested if anyone else has done the same.

[Peter]

True, cake is a framework for PHP in the same way as Rails is for Ruby, the only difference being CakePHP is a mature framework for PHP developers who want the structure and time saving benefits of Ruby on Rails without getting their head around the confusing Ruby syntax.

[kev woodman]

But has anyone here actually used it?

[sanderson]

I haven’t used CakePHP yet, but have heard lot of good things about it. Many of the developers started using it and it seems they won’t go back easily to their previous applications. In fact they are praising, and enjoying to bake with CakePHP.