I evaluated Symfony before choosing CakePHP. I believe Symfony is an interesting framework, and the fact that it uses propel as the persistence manager is also a plus (if you don't mind being tied to PHP5). It also offers out of the box some stuff that are yet not part of cake (but will be on cake 1.2) such as i18n.
However I chose Cake over Symfony because there's something about it (I believe it's how the code is structured) that makes me feel cake is more ready for prime time corporate applications while symfony is more for building small primarily ajax based applications. I think scalability and flexibility on Cake are greater than on symfony. I'm still amazed on how far I can take the framework without even modifying the core! And when there's an update on cake, I just overwrite cake's core and that's it! No change needed! You've gotta love that. My recommendation is: if you are looking to build more of a small flickr kind of site, and don't mind PHP5, then go ahead and choose symfony. But if you are aiming at a framework you can use both for that kind of applications and for larger corporate applications, then Cake is the way to go. You won't find as much documentation on the core on Cake as there is on symfony, but you'll find immediate response on the google group, IRC channel, and so far I'm finding far more cake components than symfony plugins. When one community contributes more than the other, that tells you something. Just MHO :) PS: If have not evaluated prado, so I can't comment on it. -MI -----Mensaje original----- De: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] En nombre de [EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: Viernes, 10 de Noviembre de 2006 02:40 p.m. Para: Cake PHP Asunto: Re: Cake PHP Vs Prado Vs Symfony I can't say much about Prado or Symphony. For me the choice was cake or code igniter. If you use php5 exclusively, then code igniter is a pretty tempting choice. I choose cake because of the integration of cake and amfphp. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
