Back in January I was looking for a framework for a project that ended up being canceled anyway. :-) I considered both CakePHP and Symfony, and had decided on CakePHP for a very simple reason: It was smaller. It was pure PHP while Symfony relied on Propel which in turn used YAML syntax to define its object model, which it then compiled to XML, which in turn was used to generate both the SQL tables and the base classes in PHP. I saw no reason to learn Yet Another Markup Language (I can't take seriously any markup system that acknowledges that it serves no useful purpose) and install/load/use a multi-meg system when Cake was far smaller, built its classes off of the SQL directly, and didn't require me to learn still more obscure syntax. Of course, I hate Rails-style code-generation frameworks anyway, so I'm kinda glad I never actually built that project. :-) YMMV. On Friday 20 July 2007, Steve Finkelstein wrote: > All, > > I'm terribly sorry if this is a redundant inquiry. I'm a rather > inexperienced developer who's catching on quickly, and looking for a > framework to build out a project I've been assigned. I'm more of a read > a book and try things out type of learner. > > My question to those with more experience, what exactly is the > difference between CakePHP and Symfony? I'm looking into both of them > for a potential framework to make robust and scalable code. They both > seem to try to obtain the same goals with their project, however Symfony > has text written about it, etc. > > Anyway, thank you for any insight. > > - sf -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
