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> Perhaps a bit late, but just to throw another PHP framework into the ring -
> have a think about CodeIgniter.
>
> It has fantastically clear documentation and a great community.

CI does indeed have clear docs, and I understand an active community -
however it's lack of a true ORM layer makes it quite limited in
comparison to cake. The ability to map out your table connections at
the model level and letting the framework handle grabbing the data you
want with a single function call is a huge time saver.

>From a quick google there does appear to be some ORM libraries you can
add in to CI, though they appear to be a bit of a faff as the
framework is not built around the concept, unlike cakephp which was
designed from the ground up to connect to datasources.

Cake also has some great features that are missing in CI like
authentication and access control lists etc etc

It's saturday, and defo time to get off my soapbox :p

jb


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