CakePHP vs Laravel vs webapp2

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CakePHP

664
398
+ 1
137
Laravel

27.6K
22.8K
+ 1
3.9K
webapp2

15
34
+ 1
0
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Pros of CakePHP
Pros of Laravel
Pros of webapp2
  • 35
    Open source
  • 25
    Really rapid framework
  • 19
    Good code organization
  • 13
    Flexibility
  • 10
    Security best practices
  • 7
    Clean architecture
  • 5
    ORM
  • 5
    Less code
  • 4
    Composer friendly
  • 4
    Convention Over Configuration
  • 2
    CakePhp Book
  • 2
    Cake Bake
  • 2
    Built-in Validation
  • 1
    Ctp view File extension
  • 1
    CakePhp inflector
  • 1
    Quickly develop
  • 1
    Rest Full Apis
  • 553
    Clean architecture
  • 392
    Growing community
  • 370
    Composer friendly
  • 344
    Open source
  • 324
    The only framework to consider for php
  • 220
    Mvc
  • 210
    Quickly develop
  • 168
    Dependency injection
  • 156
    Application architecture
  • 143
    Embraces good community packages
  • 73
    Write less, do more
  • 71
    Orm (eloquent)
  • 66
    Restful routing
  • 57
    Database migrations & seeds
  • 55
    Artisan scaffolding and migrations
  • 41
    Great documentation
  • 40
    Awesome
  • 30
    Awsome, Powerfull, Fast and Rapid
  • 29
    Build Apps faster, easier and better
  • 28
    Eloquent ORM
  • 26
    Promotes elegant coding
  • 26
    Modern PHP
  • 26
    JSON friendly
  • 25
    Most easy for me
  • 24
    Easy to learn, scalability
  • 23
    Beautiful
  • 22
    Blade Template
  • 21
    Test-Driven
  • 15
    Security
  • 15
    Based on SOLID
  • 13
    Clean Documentation
  • 13
    Easy to attach Middleware
  • 13
    Cool
  • 12
    Simple
  • 12
    Convention over Configuration
  • 11
    Easy Request Validatin
  • 10
    Simpler
  • 10
    Fast
  • 10
    Easy to use
  • 9
    Get going quickly straight out of the box. BYOKDM
  • 9
    Its just wow
  • 8
    Laravel + Cassandra = Killer Framework
  • 8
    Simplistic , easy and faster
  • 8
    Friendly API
  • 7
    Less dependencies
  • 7
    Super easy and powerful
  • 6
    Great customer support
  • 6
    Its beautiful to code in
  • 5
    Speed
  • 5
    Eloquent
  • 5
    Composer
  • 5
    Minimum system requirements
  • 5
    Laravel Mix
  • 5
    Easy
  • 5
    The only "cons" is wrong! No static method just Facades
  • 5
    Fast and Clarify framework
  • 5
    Active Record
  • 5
    Php7
  • 4
    Ease of use
  • 4
    Laragon
  • 4
    Laravel casher
  • 4
    Easy views handling and great ORM
  • 4
    Laravel Forge and Envoy
  • 4
    Cashier with Braintree and Stripe
  • 3
    Laravel Passport
  • 3
    Laravel Spark
  • 3
    Intuitive usage
  • 3
    Laravel Horizon and Telescope
  • 3
    Laravel Nova
  • 3
    Rapid development
  • 2
    Laravel Vite
  • 2
    Scout
  • 2
    Deployment
  • 1
    Succint sintax
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    Cons of CakePHP
    Cons of Laravel
    Cons of webapp2
    • 1
      Robust Baking Tool
    • 1
      Follows Good Programming Practices
    • 53
      PHP
    • 33
      Too many dependency
    • 23
      Slower than the other two
    • 17
      A lot of static method calls for convenience
    • 15
      Too many include
    • 13
      Heavy
    • 9
      Bloated
    • 8
      Laravel
    • 7
      Confusing
    • 5
      Too underrated
    • 4
      Not fast with MongoDB
    • 1
      Not using SOLID principles
    • 1
      Slow and too much big
    • 1
      Difficult to learn
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      What is CakePHP?

      It 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.

      What is 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.

      What is webapp2?

      webapp2 is a simple. it follows the simplicity of webapp, but improves it in some ways: it adds better URI routing and exception handling, a full featured response object and a more flexible dispatching mechanism.

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      CodeIgniter
      CodeIgniter is a proven, agile & open PHP web application framework with a small footprint. It is powering the next generation of web apps.
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      Rails
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