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 generates much of what you need from config files. With Cake there's a lot of code to write... and a lot of SQL queries. Views are scattered in a sub-template kinda sucky way that takes getting used to. More code means more "stuff" where errors/typos can occur, so maintaining it also takes longer (and therefore costs more). I'm not sure if you can use Doctrine or Propel with Cake - never tried. Certainly, if you could this would reduce the workload somewhat. Cake *IS* based on PHP4 though - which you may or may not have an issue with (I do). Probably not the Cake-bashing email you wanted ;) I'd be tempted to tell the client that if they understand Cake, it's not SUCH a quantum leap to learn Symfony. Many principals are the same. Due to the fact that Cake is based on PHP4, which is now deprecated, I take the stance that means that Cake is also deprecated. Still, if they insist on Cake - let them eat Cake ::ducks:: On 17 Dec 2009, at 14:24, Stephen Melrose wrote: > 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 need is some justified reasons. Anyone got any they can throw > my way? Preferably from a maintenance perspective? > > Cheers, > > Stephen > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "symfony users" group. > To post to this group, send email to symfony-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > symfony-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony users" group. To post to this group, send email to symfony-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to symfony-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en.
