What is CakePHP?
CakePHP makes building web applications simpler, faster, while requiring less code. A modern PHP 7 framework offering a flexible database access layer and a powerful scaffolding system.
CakePHP is a tool in the Frameworks (Full Stack) category of a tech stack.
CakePHP is an open source tool with 8.1K GitHub stars and 3.4K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to CakePHP's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses CakePHP?
Companies
263 companies reportedly use CakePHP in their tech stacks, including Swat.io, Zumba, and Adsia.
Developers
216 developers on StackShare have stated that they use CakePHP.
CakePHP Integrations
PHP, Laravel, Symfony, KeyCDN, and Raygun are some of the popular tools that integrate with CakePHP. Here's a list of all 9 tools that integrate with CakePHP.
Why developers like CakePHP?
Here’s a list of reasons why companies and developers use CakePHP
Top Reasons
CakePHP Reviews
Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose CakePHP in their tech stack.
Daniel Voyce
Digital2Go
CakePHP
CakePHP is one of the most mature and developed PHP Frameworks available, it brings order to Chaos and the core team are a decent bunch of people who really care about the project CakePHP
Travis Rowland
DynamictivityCakePHP
CakePHP is used because it is a very feature-complete, battle-tested rapid development framework. This saves us months of development time because the API's do most of the work. There is also an extensive plugin and community built around this platform. CakePHP
CakePHP Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to CakePHP?
Laravel
It is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. It attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as authentication, routing, sessions, and caching.
CodeIgniter
CodeIgniter is a proven, agile & open PHP web application framework with a small footprint. It is powering the next generation of web apps.
WordPress
The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Over 60 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home” — we’d love you to join the family.
Rails
Rails is a web-application framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.
PHP
Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
CakePHP's Followers
246 developers follow CakePHP to keep up with related blogs and decisions.
