The best thing about Cake is the documentation. It is very concise and clear. The ease of starting off with building an application is relatively minimal compared to other PHP frameworks like Laravel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CakePHP?

The more recent versions of Cake have been a bit slow in terms of ORM and general request handling. Cake 2.x to Cake 3.x was a major revamp but they failed to make the migration process more automated and smoother. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering CakePHP:

There are way better and more performant languages out there if you are building a web application. In case you have made up your mind that you are going to go with PHP, then CakePHP is a good option that could solve most of your use cases while being easy to start off.

If you are trying to build a REST back-end, Cake can be used and an intermediate layer can be setup to read and respond in JSON API or any other standard response formats. If you are considering to build a single page application using MVC, please evaluate the performance of your business case with Cake's templating framework as it could be a bit slower than other frameworks some times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CakePHP solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our business case is a relatively simple one where we use Cake's ORM to its fullest. The ease of using this ORM has decreased development efforts in terms of writing optimised queries. Although, Cake is MVC, we have implemented an intermediate layer to make use of JSON API and send responses back in a standard JSON format. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Arpit C.

Business Development Manager

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/12/2021

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"It was really great experience, looking forward for more opportunities."

5/5

What do you like best about CakePHP?

The architecture is one of the best arch as per the global industries standards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CakePHP?

There is nothing like to dislike CakePHP. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering CakePHP:

Carrier is more better with CakePHP comparatively other OS frameworks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CakePHP solving and how is that benefiting you?

- Building SAAS based architecture to promote Multi-Tenancy

- Developing intuitive & responsive user-interface using Vue.js, Angular, HTML5/JS/CSS3, its pre-processors (LESS & SASS), Bootstrap

- Server & Database configuration for existing software's data on internal production server to start fixing bugs/issues, adding new features without affecting current functioning.

- Writing & Integrating multiple API's (REST & SOAP based) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sanket R.

Software Developer (Web)

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/24/2020

"A rapid app development framework for programmers"

3/5

What do you like best about CakePHP?

CakePHP is easy to install and get started with. The user guide is detailed and oriented for programmers so that they are able to focus more on domain logic rather than project configuration. The best part is it provides a beautiful API for views so that the UI of your app can be easily customized according to customer's needs. The security and application deployment is a smooth process to get your project up and running quickly. To summarise the benefits, I can list out the pointers for those who are looking forward to use this framework.

- Easy to use installation procedure with dependency manager "Composer"

- A detailed API for creating and modifying your views using cells, blocks, elements.

- Security is handled nicely to block SQL injection, CSRF by using ORM for database queries.

- Provides a deployment guide to make you host the application on any platform easily. Migrations can be added to generate DB schema on your server using the migration plugin Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CakePHP?

There are obvious disadvantages when using CakePHP as with any other PHP framework. The biggest one is performance. Compared to other frameworks it lags in the response time to deliver the output in any app developed. The code structure seems to be cluttered as compared to other frameworks like Laravel or Codeigniter which makes it difficult to scale the project. Due to these cons, the framework can be easily used for working on smaller or mid size projects but may require out of the box modifications while working on larger projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/17/2020

"Best Fast Framework"

4/5

What do you like best about CakePHP?

There are many things i like about this framework. To begin with is the easy installation it offers when it comes to documentation, the documentation is really easy and well organized. Moreover, it offers all developers fast development without inventing the wheel making their life easier when it comes to coding. In addition, it provides several tools and features such as security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CakePHP?

What i dislike is that the crash that happens every time when the projects i am working on started to be huge with alot of features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CakePHP solving and how is that benefiting you?

What is nice and important for all developers is that cakephp offers fast, easy, and rapid development so all engineers will be able to finish and deploy their projects in a very fast way. Inaddition business owners are loving it as they are getting projects done in a very rapid and fast way therefore this will increase the projects that will increase the income for the business owner Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Facilities Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/8/2020

"Simple, rapid, and easies open source php framework."

4/5

What do you like best about CakePHP?

CakePHP offers a clean and clear documentation to start installation and working on the project. It helps developers and business owners to build any project in a very quick fast and in a very short time by just focusing on the business logic behind the application and not about the technical stuff behind the framework compared with other frameworks. Moreover, it provides and helps developers with too many hard implementations, by offering security, easy deployment and easy installation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CakePHP?

Companies and the market are not migrating and using CakePHP, it is still not popular in the market. Moreover, organizations working with CakePhp are not that big so less collaboration on internet to be shared. In conclusion, i think it is a little bit mess when it comes working with huge project as it follows MVC architecture which is monolithic . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CakePHP solving and how is that benefiting you?

Actually all people are moving into technology and as a freelancers i need a framework that helps me finish projects in a very short time when it comes to installation and deployment. Therefore this is the main important benefit i am realizing when working with CakePHP and it is the main reason behind workin with it actually. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Consumer Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/23/2020

"Simple development with CakePhp"

4/5

What do you like best about CakePHP?

What i liked the most using this website is the simple and easy documentation it offers to install and start any project. In addition to that, it provides very fast and speedy development process in a way that both the developer and the business owners can finish the project in a very fast paste by offering a lot of amazing features such as security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CakePHP?

I hate php in general and this is the main issue that i dislike about the framework but everything else for me is good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.