I really like the idea David, CakePHP definitely needs more and better 
marketing. What I disagree with is that only a core developer or something 
with a lot of experience can write such articles or help promoting the 
framework, anyone could start adding their experiences with CakePHP, even 
just to say "It made my day a bit easier".

What would you propose to encourage more people contributing that kind of 
feedback? Would you be willing to write an article we can expose as a case 
study?

On Thursday, August 14, 2014 4:58:55 PM UTC+2, David Yell wrote:
>
> *TL;DR*, Tell people why and how a RAD framework can compete with the 
> likes of Symfony for larger projects which have a long lifetime.
>
> As we all know CakePHP get's a pretty bad rep in the PHP community and no 
> more so than from the Symfony corner. They love to belittle the framework 
> and regurgitate Uncle Bob. It would be nice to have a bit of a slap-down 
> post about using a RAD framework can be for more than just prototyping.
>
> It would be great for someone with good knowledge of the core to detail 
> some of the software design principles being used in the framework and how 
> you can build large scale commercial and stable applications using CakePHP. 
> So often people look down on CakePHP because they see it as being "magic", 
> "tightly coupled" or "slow". Yeah, we've all heard them spouting this 
> garbage. So why not address it?
>
> I think a post or even a book page which extols the virtues of the 
> framework would be beneficial. Something which advertises the framework, 
> why it's cool, what it does which is cool. I know there are some large 
> scale sites out there using the framework. I know I've built a few which *I'd 
> consider* reasonably high traffic (eg, 80k unique visitors a month). So 
> it can be done.
>
> I also know that there are plugins, tips, hints and optimisations out 
> there which people have done to help their app. Streamlining the framework 
> by removing all the default routes for example. Making better use of 
> caching. Whatever it might be I would really like to see some Laravel style 
> marketing happening for CakePHP because it is a good framework.
>
> I'd welcome other peoples thoughts and suggestions.
>

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