Thanks for the comment!

Cake’s not in this post as there isn’t a speaker at conference for them. I have to admit that I don’t know much about it as when I first looked at it, it was targeting PHP4 and PHP5 and I have no interest in PHP4-limited code.

Regards,

Rob…

Hope all is well and thanks for stopping by my blog! I would love to go to the PHP conference in London. Have fun!

I convinced the last company I contracted with that they needed to do away with their (poorly) homemade MVC framework and move to a more robust and widely developed framework. I went through an evaluation period on my own, and found that Zend Framework, CakePHP, CodeIgnitor, and Symfony were the forerunners. Based on my review, I subsequently recommended the Zend Framework.

My reasoning included Zend being “the PHP people” and the presumption that the PHP community of developers would likely get on board with the ZF and that help, in the form of community support as well as availability of developers, would be more plentiful. Once I started exploring the ZF, I was even more convinced by the great classes I found within it.

I did notice, however, was that a good number of people were using the CakePHP framework. Another developer I was working with at the time also did some evaluations and decided he too liked Cake, citing easier setup and good documentation as reasons. I see that Cake is not included in your comparisons. Is there any particular reason for this? Do you have any personal experience with Cake or what have you heard about it? Just interested in your input…

Thanks, Dan

Clearly yesterday was “typo day”! Thanks for the heads-up.

Next time I won’t blog whilst watching Torchwood

Regards,

Rob…

I keep forgetting that CodeIgniter is misspelt

I’ve now updated!

Regards,

Rob…