cake installed and working in seconds flat symfony waded through documentation for a couple of hours with not much to show for it
Now, now. Let's look at the competition fairly. I think the only > place where Symfony has CakePHP beat is the humungous amounts of > documentation they have vomited out. but still got no where with it. and managed to get things going with cake sparse documentation Once you're a little way in you'll know which you prefer and can then carry > on the project with the framework that you feel most comfortable with. Small & large projects can be made with various pieces of cake. And its not over complicated. Cake's documentation is sure to improve; On 16/07/07, Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > There are few articles on the web that compare the two frameworks from > peoples real world experience, and those may be useful to you. Just > search for symfony vs. cake > > When we were exploring this, about as quickly as we recognised that > the Zend framework was on the wrong track (less than 30 mins :), we > found that Cake was very appealing for number of reasons. It was > trivial to get started, which is not a great reason but an influential > one none the less and might be important to you, it's extensible, > promotes some good design concepts and conventions, and has many > concepts that fitted well with our own experience - in essence, it > felt "right". Once you've had a taste of it so to speak, you would > probably find that there's no upside to doing anything non-trivial > without it. > > We've only looked at Symfony briefly and it seems much harder to get > started, but to be fair and inevitably like most cake users, we > haven't tried it yet as once you find something that you like, the > search for a solution tends to stop. > > As we explored further, we found that Cake isn't without problems, and > it has some things that would have benefited from being done > differently. Cake also uses arrays for representing model data, and > this has some quite wide implications. However that area is planned > for improvement in Cake 2.x and if you're not used to OO design then > you might not care or even notice. On the flipside, Cake has a concept > for use with Controllers called Components, and we threw together a > Component that by simply referencing in a Controller, gives us the > class based view of data that we were missing. Being able to assist or > solve issues with a bit of code and have it applied across the board > in seconds is appealing, and there various other neat concepts. > > Frameworks are largely a matter of preference, and what one person > feels happy with or considers better may be different to the next > person. Trying both Cake and symfony for real, perhaps in parallel on > the same real world project, may be the best way to decide. Once > you're a little way in you'll know which you prefer and can then carry > on the project with the framework that you feel most comfortable with. > > Good luck! > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
