CakePHP is the number 3 of PHP MVC frameworks…
… at least according to mustaphas post Top 10 PHP MVC frameworks. He writes about CakePHP:
CakePHP is very promising, the only problem - really, I don’t know if it is a problem - is: the development process is very slow.
Hm, I cannot say if the development process is slow compared with other frameworks, but what I see is that there is a steady progress. What do you think?
I think it seems slow because a lot is not really done yet / a lot needs to be fixed.
It would also be nice if there were more components/plugins etc, which would show that there’s an active community.
I’m not sure where the feeling of slow progress is coming from, either. If you try and make a full site using Cake, you’ll see that it’s pretty complete already. Maybe people are looking for push-button or one-line-code solutions?
@Alexander: you find some components/helpers on CakeForge and in the wiki. But you are right, there could be more of them, I think it is merely a matter of time.
I think it’s more likely that this mustap guy just isn’t paying attention.
Progress slow? I think he is wanting a port of RoR and is comparing what features that CakePHP doesn’t have that RoR does and doesn’t see progress of them coming in. I have seen lightening progress of CakePHP since I started using in Dec. Any bug in the code, get on IRC, and PHPNut has it posted back to the trunk next day. I think people get caught up in the bells and whistles. But that is what I like best about CakePHP, no bells and whistles just what you need to work. I mean even AJAX helper!
I think is all a matter of marketing, CakePHP is the best framework but it’s marketing hasn’t been the best.
* It needs some killer app
* It needs some killer tutorials
* Screencasts would be cool
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