APPENDIX BHow CakePHP Compares withOther Frameworks
To give you a sense of what to expect from Cake, this appendix compares it to some other popular web frameworks.
PHP Frameworks
Currently, the most popular PHP frameworks include the following:
- CakePHP (
www.cakephp.org) - CodeIgniter (
www.codeigniter.com) - Symfony (
www.symfony-project.org) - Zend Framework (
http://framework.zend.com)
Each of these frameworks is built in the PHP language, but they differ in their methods and libraries. Other frameworks could be listed here as well (PHP has a large and growing number of frameworks compared to other languages), but I'll stick with these four. No doubt others will emerge, but I expect these to continue to be the most dominant players in the PHP frameworks ...
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