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Hi Phil,

> I'm currently playing with an app using CodeIgniter. I started with CakePHP (having not
> used either before) but found the docs for CodeIgniter clearer by a country mile.

hmm, have you seen http://book.cakephp.org/ - I'm not sure how
http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/models.html could be
considered more complete or clearer than
http://book.cakephp.org/view/66/models - aside from the fact that
models in CI are not nearly as powerful, hence don't require so much
explanation ;)

Also, CI, Zend and Symfony are backed by commercial entities - cakephp
is entirely community/donation driven, so perhaps it's not surprising
that it's taken longer to get the docs up to speed.

> CodeIgniter comes with a library for accessing your database via ActiveRecord out of the
> box (as well as some alternatives), which is more than enough for most people I suspect.

well, ime, even the most simple project includes a db and some linked
tables. for a simple blog app, you'd need a few db tables, chained via
foreign keys, such as:

Post
-> Category
-> -> Posts
-> User
-> -> Group

why write 5 data retrieval calls when you can define these connections
once and make a single call?

> They both look nice, but at the end of the day, you're still writing PHP ;)

yeah, but less if you use cakephp :p

jb

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