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Adil K.

Développeur web

Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/26/2017

"Experienced Cake PHP User"

3.5/5

What do you like best about CakePHP?

Better performance

Enhanced components and helpers.

Templating with familiar PHP syntax.

ORM Flexibility

Easy de setup & light weight Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CakePHP?

Poor of plugins on open source repositories(github, etc)

documented need some work for advanced approach Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Carlos M.

Jr FrontEnd

Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/17/2016

"Great PHP Framework with a decent userbase"

4/5

What do you like best about CakePHP?

When I have to do some heavy PHP-based work, I use CakePHP as my framework and starting point. The framework has a virtual console that allows you to scaffold your site in minutes without a headache. Its built-in CRUD possibilities make creating data-driven web apps a simple but powerful task. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CakePHP?

Although they've been working on it, the actual documentation is lacking more code examples. If the user is new to PHP frameworks, they will hit a hard wall because of the experience barrier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering CakePHP:

If you haven't worked with PHP Frameworks, CakePHP can provide you with basic to advanced functionalities to work on your projects, allowing you to scale them without stress and actually know what you're doing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I've had the need to create simple CRUD web apps, and using CakePHP has benefited me by making such tasks hassle-free. Having such utilities and possibilities to create a project foundation within minutes is what got me attached to it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Valentina R.

Junior Research Fellow - Machine Learning and Topic Modeling

Education Management

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/30/2016

"Easy, fast but powerful"

4.5/5

What do you like best about CakePHP?

The CakePHP framework is very very easy to setup. When building simple applications the initial setup with basic CRUD actions and pages is immediate (thanks to bake console); when moving to more complex applications the framework allows different levels of customizations and settings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CakePHP?

Sometime the documentation is not full of examples and the community is not active as for other similar frameworks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering CakePHP:

When choosing a framework consider that Cake is very easy to setup, very customizable, but if you are not scared to learn some other frameworks (like Symfony) are more powerful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I have implemented some web applications, both simple and complex. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.