Cakephp as PHP Framework June 15th, 2007

A year ago, I had a job to create company profile website for PT. Usaha Saudara Mandiri. At that time, I was Rails fans. So why not create the website with Ruby on Rails? Because the hosting does not support Ruby on Rails. So bye-bye, Rails. It means I need to use PHP. The version of supported PHP at that time was 4. I already knew that it is more convenient if you use framework than not. So I searched PHP4 framework which was similar with Ruby on Rails. I found it. Cakephp

The documentation is good but not so polished. It is similar with Ruby on Rails. So I don’t have any difficulties jumping to the Cakephp world. What annoying me is Cakephp supports MySQL only. I failed to use sqlite. What make more fun with Cakephp is they do not use any other library as dependencies. So installing and deployment Cakephp is easy.

So if you likes MySQL and Ruby on Rails but forced to use PHP (especially PHP4), CakePHP would be a good choice. The website which developed by me with CakePHP is here. Mirror is here.

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