I've been using both Cake and Symfony at the same time, and I think they are both great frameworks with some up- and downsides attached, which may not even be downsides or upsides depending on your point of view.
Typically, it's all a matter of requirements and preferences ... while I believe it's true that Cake is great for quick development, I feel more comfortable with Symfony for a bigger project. Stating that Symfony is trying to 'lure' app developers into using it seems like sort of a negative remark that it don't deserves, as I do find for myself that Cake is missing some extensive documentation. To be practical: when coding in Symfony I have the Symonfy documentation in .pdf open all the time, and some quick searches usually lead me to the correct info in a matter of seconds. With Cake, I need to figure out the correct section of the online manual, and then most of the time I need to go to the google groups and hope to find some proper documented answers. As for the ORM part I am a strong supporter of Propel for years, but I also see the power of the Cake approach where lots of query results are at instantly available. One should of course take into consideration the extra load Propel-usage puts onto your application @ runtime, where on the other hand Cake is very lightweight. Cake's approach to convention over configuration is very good, and I also tend to dislike dozens of configuration files all over the place like you will have with Symfony. On a downside, Cake's documentation lacks some convention info which often has cost me valuable time trying to find out the reason for some behavior. So in the end, as I said, it's all a matter of requirements and preferences, and deciding what's best for your project ... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
