Re: [symfony-users] Reasons NOT To Use CakePHP

2009-12-18 Thread Lee Bolding
I wouldn't say Cake is _bad_. I've used it on a fairly large project and wasn't horrified by it - but maintaining a Cake app is a LOT more work than creating and maintaining a Symfony app. Work === time === money. This is chiefly because Symfony has a lot of additional helpers, and auto

Re: [symfony-users] Reasons NOT To Use CakePHP

2009-12-18 Thread David Wang
I'd second what Pablo said. You can always get a list of reasons for or against a framework. In the end, if the client can support Cake but not symfony, then i'd just use cakephp. CakePHP is pretty easy to develop in. If you can develop in symfony, cakephp will be... cake :) -d On Dec

[symfony-users] Reasons NOT To Use CakePHP

2009-12-17 Thread Stephen Melrose
Hey guys, We've specced a project here for Symfony, and the client has come back saying they want to use CakePHP instead because someone there end has used it, therefore can maintain it. I've heard CakePHP isn't one of the better frameworks, but I haven't used it so I don't know why. What we

Re: [symfony-users] Reasons NOT To Use CakePHP

2009-12-17 Thread Pablo Godel
Hi Stephen, As much as you may not like it, I think you should do what the customer asked. If they have someone already that can (or think that can) maintain CakePHP, for the customer this is very important. There are many reasons why not use CakePHP, but there can also be many why not use