CakePHP

Making Large Scale Web App Development in PHP Easier with CakePHP

The web has turned out to be more feature rich in the last 5 years. Most applications have also moved to the web as cloud computing makes giant strides in both speed and reliability. If you are primarily in PHP, and need framework that will allow you to create large applications that can scale out very well with millions of connections, you need to take a look at CakePHP.

Made for scale

Unlike many other frameworks that are available in the PHP world, CakePHP is specifically designed for large scale web applications. If you know from the beginning that your app is going to gain thousands of users, this is the most sensible framework to use. Here are some features that help you scale your app easily:

Built in support for multiple database systems
Sensible class inheritance that helps avoid spaghetti code
Advanced form validation for large forms and multiple different formats

These are the things that require developers to spend a lot of time on in general during application development. By taking care of these features, CakePHP lets you get down to the features you care about the most and ship your web app earlier in a stable manner.

Zero Configurations

Another big time spender for PHP application developers is configuring various options. This is true of all frameworks, but CakePHP really takes the cake because it can work even with ZERO configurations out of the box. This means:

You can start testing your application on the server right from the beginning
You can configure various options as and when you need to fine tune your application

This does not mean that CakePHP is not configurable. You can bend the framework according to your requirements, but it does not force you to do that unless you really require it.

Used by large companies

If you are still on the fence about the framework, consider that hundreds of large companies with very big applications have evaluated it and consider it to be the PHP system of choice. CakePHP has passed muster from the best of PHP developers.

Moreover, it is in very active development and has grown to be quite mature with respect to security and stability. You will find very few issues with CakePHP as compared to other top frameworks. Various PHP frameworks have their own advantages, but when it comes to apps with hundreds of thousands of lines of code, this framework excels like none other.