I just recently tried out the Cake PHP framework for a project I needed to get done quickly. I didn’t dive into it too deeply, but I have to say I’m very pleased with it so far.
In case you haven’t heard of Cake before, just think Ruby on Rails but in PHP instead of Ruby, or (to quote from their website):
Cake is a rapid development framework for PHP which uses commonly known design patterns like ActiveRecord, Association Data Mapping, Front Controller and MVC. Our primary goal is to provide a structured framework that enables PHP users at all levels to rapidly develop robust web applications, without any loss to flexibility.
It’s a useful thing to have available if you like (or are curious about) Rails but need to deploy on a server that may not be configured for Ruby, but does support PHP & MySQL.
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i thought you were actually talking about cake at first, then i read on and i got disappointed…