Dear Cakephp gurus,
I have used cakephp in a past project (simple one) and I would like to
continue using cakephp in a new project. There are some voices which
advocate using Laravel which is an up-and-coming php framework.
For experienced programmers who know something about both frameworks,
I've not had experience with Laravel, but with regards to the magic being
a con, specifically when it comes to the convention of models, table names
and controllers, I've had plenty of experience with using legacy databases
that don't conform to the convention, and have still been able to use
The thing that I like more about cakephp is it is simple for a beginner
programmer like me, before I had tried many frameworks but cakephp I was
the only that made sense for me. (I'm not a programmer genius)
2 months ago I tried laravel and it was simple to understand like cakephp
plus had
I just had a quick gander at the doco. Whilst ORMs aren't never seen
before features in PHP (looking at you, Doctrine), it certainly seems like
Laravel is at a place where CakePHP 3 is going to take existing CakePHP
users. PHP 5.4 using namespaces, location services implemented at static
functions
