[UPHPU] php frameworks. cake and such

[Jonathan Duncan]

On 14 Mar 2008, at 11:12, Richard K Miller wrote:

> A few people on the list are CakePHP pros. I think Jonathan is even  
> on the CakePHP documentation team. (Is that right?)
>
> PHP on Trax was also developed by a local guy. It was supposed to be  
> a line by line match of Ruby on Rails but it doesn't have the  
> community that CakePHP does.
>
> CodeIgniter is the other framework I often hear of people using,  
> besides Cake, Zend, and Symfony.
>

While I am a CakePHP fan and use it as my framework of choice, I am  
not the Jonathan referred to above.  That would be John Anderson who  
is often on IRC but not on the mailing list.

I enjoy CakePHP a lot.  It is powerful and lite.  However, I have not  
used others as much as I have used Cake so making a comparison would  
be worthless from me.  I agree with Travis that it really comes down  
to what you have become comfortable with.  I would guess that most  
people who have a favorite framework have not really tried many others  
if any and so getting a true comparison out of most people should be  
taken as the bias it is.

My suggestion, pick one, try it out.  Don't like it?  Try another.   
Just like music and movies, not all genres are going to appeal to all  
people.

Jonathan