Re: CakePHP (and other leading php frameworks) vs. Drupal custom modules

2009-08-10 Thread Smelly Eddie
I think robert and paris have done a good job answering this. Cake <> Drupal A change from a cms to a framework would be a big step. But IMO a good one to get away from Drupal. On Aug 10, 4:39 am, Martin Westin wrote: > A bit OT, but for general interest check outhttp://openatrium.com/ > It i

Re: CakePHP (and other leading php frameworks) vs. Drupal custom modules

2009-08-10 Thread Martin Westin
A bit OT, but for general interest check out http://openatrium.com/ It is a "groupware"-type application written on top of Drupal. I have never used Drupal but if I was to start I would first look at how they did it. Of-course you wanted to know about going the other way... from Drupal to Cake or

Re: CakePHP (and other leading php frameworks) vs. Drupal custom modules

2009-08-09 Thread Robert P
Drupal is a highly extensible CMS with a fairly powerful API, and the progress from Zengine made it easy to theme as well Jake (for Joomla) and Drake (for Drupal) are plugins that allow a Cake application to be called from certain URIs within the CMS, but this has a much greater overhead and ther

Re: CakePHP (and other leading php frameworks) vs. Drupal custom modules

2009-08-09 Thread Parris
As i understand it... drupal isn't so much of a framework and more of a cms. Of course it probably does have an api. I have worked with drupal once. I got frustrated and moved on. It is really hard to create a theme in it, if you ask me. Cake is a framework much like ruby on rails. If you don't

CakePHP (and other leading php frameworks) vs. Drupal custom modules

2009-08-09 Thread Josh
Does anyone have CakePHP experience and Drupal custom module experience? If so, what is your opinion of the Drupal API for writing custom modules? I have a friend that is about to do a re-design for his Drupal app and is considering changing frameworks. They would have to design 3-4 custom modul