I think CakePHP is pretty amazing myself. A bit of a learning curve, but really seems rock solid once you get up to speed. I'm using 1.3x.
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Anthony Wlodarski <ant92...@gmail.com>wrote: > On a few certain projects with CakePHP I found not being able use type > hinting a problem. Also holding onto PHP 4 for as long as it can hurt us > OOP practices especially with namespace collisions and class prefixes. > Don't get me wrong, the implementation of Active Record is amazing in > CakePHP but when you build complex HABTM relationships loading data can be a > PITA, thus requiring me to go into each model and set the recursion for how > deep it will dig into the database because the arrays coming back are > massive. > > In regards to the HABTM complex relationships it was more of a flying by > the seat of your pants, for example once the application grew we noticed > that the memory utilization was growing exponentially. Unfortunately it > grew so much over a certain amount of time (Site got hit with the Digg > effect.) that one night it took the box offline. The client got angry and > basically blamed us, after finding the docs on how to reduce the depth of > calls into the DB the damage was done. We moved to Kohana after that where > they implement a different system for calling related objects. > > -Anthony > > > On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Mutaz Musa <mutazm...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> I used to use CakePHP extensively in my projects but found its limitations >> on certain projects. >> >> I'd also be interested to hear what limitations you came across with Cake. >> >> >> On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Anthony Wlodarski <ant92...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Yes, you are correct. So far during today experiments I have seen that >>> it is a loosely coupled library. The experience so far has been positive. >>> With Ubuntu I installed it via Apt and I have the "zf" program in my program >>> path so using it anywhere in the file system is easy. One thing that took >>> me a while was to figure out where the library was stored with the Apt >>> install. I found the folder then created a symlink and everything was in >>> proper order. >>> >>> -Anthony >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Ajai Khattri <a...@bitblit.net> wrote: >>> >>>> On Fri, 16 Apr 2010, Anthony Wlodarski wrote: >>>> >>>> > What are your thoughts on ZF, what do you like about it and what do >>>> you >>>> > dislike about it? >>>> >>>> Its not a framework, its a library of components. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Aj. >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List >>>> http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >>>> >>>> http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Anthony W. >>> ant92...@gmail.com >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List >>> http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >>> >>> http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List >> http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >> >> http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation >> > > > > -- > Anthony W. > ant92...@gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation > -- IM/iChat: ejpusa Links: http://del.icio.us/ejpusa Follow me: http://www.twitter.com/ejpusa Karma: http://www.coderswithconscience.com
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