Comments on: Comparison Between Zend and CakePHP Framework

By: Minh Tran

Minh Tran — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 07:16:05 +0000

cakephp is for small to medium sites. it is really an aid to rapid development. you dont need to maintain db code this is a win. but it is quite slow in comparison to other frameworks. DOO is claimed to be fastest php framework and lightweight and easy.

you need to use them to have the real experience.

By: Houcem BERRAYANA

Houcem BERRAYANA — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:32:10 +0000

I was using cakephp for more than a year, to be honest it’s a perfect framework for RAD development. However, I found that with cakephp is not a very good solution for big applications. I was using cake for building a social network web site. the first 4 months, it was perfect and the development was great. But when the project becomes bigger.. and when we started using FLEX with cakePHP the problems appear.

I think that cake is the better solution for 1- 5 months projects.

By: May be

May be — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:30:06 +0000

Sorry , I don’t think Zend has a good documentation which helps to learn quickly for a newbie .
Sorry and I strictly disagree with it . As I was new to MVC and frameworks and to my experience with these .

But ZF may come with a better example in future.

By: will

will — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:08:34 +0000

Documentation:

The main problem with using ANY framework is it can be a bit tricky to work out how to do anything compared to plain php. Therefore documentation is an absolutely critical factor.

ZF documentation is quite frustrating to use. It tends to give very specific information, that often is not very complete. There is no comments section to the documentation like php.net or cakes documentation, so there is nowhere for users to expand on the extremely terse docs.

o, and my disclaimer: im a web developer using ZF for 90% of my current commerical and garage projects.

By: wese

wese — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:20:15 +0000

I was a fan of CakePHP when php5 was ‘new’, but since they hold on to the php4 i wonder what will happen with php6.

By: Steve-o

Steve-o — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 21:59:42 +0000

Any framework that uses the ridiculous PHP4 faux-object model already has a strike against it and should be discarded immediately. End of debate.

By: Maks All Read - PHP « Umumi Hela ve Özgürlük

Maks All Read - PHP « Umumi Hela ve Özgürlük — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:12:56 +0000

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By: Wil Sinclair

Wil Sinclair — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:23:55 +0000

@Chucho @Nate: I agree with Nate that this is a flawed characterization. I know of a pretty extensive list of no-nonsense commercial users of Cake. On the other hand, I know of a lot of amateur developers working on hobbyist sites with Zend. In particular, I don’t see how this characterization brings any light in to the discussion.
I find these discussions useful only when we all stick to the facts. For example, I don’t think it’s very helpful for someone to say ‘I like this framework’ in a comment. Why do you like it? What does it offer that others don’t? And, if we’re going to stick to facts, we better make sure that no framework is mis-represented.

By: nate

nate — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:38:49 +0000

@Chucho: I’d say that’s a fairly uneducated comment. CakePHP has a long list of big-business users and case studies to back it’s quality and readiness for large-scale projects. The fact that “nobody got fired for picking Zend” does not detract from that.

By: Ray Cheung’s Blog: Comparison Between Zend and CakePHP Framework : Dragonfly Networks

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:59:38 +0000

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