Hi Andy, great question. I touched on a comparison of Cake to other PHP frameworks briefly in a presentation I gave at NYPHP. You can see a discussion and a link to the slides here http://cake.insertdesignhere.com/posts/view/12.
If I had to give you two selling points on which to choose Cake, they would be these: (1) When writing web apps, Cake is the absolute quickest route from point A to point B: While Cake allows you to take control at pretty much any point in the process, most of the time you really don't have to. If you want to start building an app, it really is as simple as pointing a config file at your database and writing a few lines of code. No gigantic configurations, no ridiculously verbose syntax, just simple, consice coding constructs that enforce simple, concise philosophies that will help you improve the way you write code. (2) Cake is PHP development, in PHP: This may not make a lot of sense off the bat, but the point is that while other frameworks try to make PHP act like other things, (Symfony like Java and Prado like .NET) Cake actually plays to the strengths of PHP as a language, which, again makes development more efficient. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
