CakePHP

[Adam]

I see that several of the CakePHP core developers have moved over to the Lithium framework. What's the general impression of frameworks these days? Is CakePHP still relevant in the marketplace? I just do some basic prototyping for fun and I've always had some challenges working with frameworks, but I have spent some time trying to "bake" with Cake.

Thanks for the feedback.

[David Rogers]

IMO, CakePHP is as relevant as it ever was, which you can take with a grain of salt. If you're using Cake or have used it in the past, it's still a good tool for the job. Personally, I did not, sticking with the PHP5+ frameworks like Zend Framework. As I understand, lithium is the spiritual successor to CakePHP, authored primarily by Nate Abele from that project. Their connections are similar to FuelPHP and Kohana / Code Igniter: in making the framework relevant for post-lambda PHP, the authors found themselves getting further and further away from anything that looked like the original. Hence, the fork and the name change.

Personally, I have had experience working with lithium in production, and it's pretty good. There are some things that drive me crazy about it, but it's good by way of PHP frameworks.

On Tuesday, February 14, 2012, Adam wrote:

I see that several of the CakePHP core developers have moved over to the Lithium framework. What's the general impression of frameworks these days? Is CakePHP still relevant in the marketplace? I just do some basic prototyping for fun and I've always had some challenges working with frameworks, but I have spent some time trying to "bake" with Cake.

Thanks for the feedback.

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[Adam Parish]

Thanks David for the framework update. I think it's really interesting and that the CakePHP founder lives here in the South, and I would like to support that framework when possible.