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 > Whilst CodeIgniter is well documented and lightweight, as soon as you
>  involve any kind of complex data structure Cakephp wins hands down. CI
>  has no built in association mapping (too late to look up the correct
>  term on google!), and has afaik no recommended library,

ok - always worth googling before jumping to assumptions! CI does have
an Active Record implementation, it does appear both less intuitive
and lacking in features.

In Cakephp, models are considered (by default at least) as
representations of a database table, they expect to be associated with
other models (tables), and so all the active record instanciation etc
is done for you. With CI on the other hand it appears you have to
extend the ActiveRecord class, call it's constructor etc manually.
Also in [CI] controllers you have to manually load each model you want
to use, whereas with Cake the model that corresponds to that
controller (again this is only the default behaviour) is loaded
automatically for you, and you have all the associated models
available via the model chain.

anyhoo, might be worth comparing the 2 pages:

http://codeigniter.com/wiki/ActiveRecord_Class/
http://book.cakephp.org/view/66/models

Personally, I'm all for writing less code when I can!

cheers,

jon

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