CakePHP is an open source PHP framework for building web applications in a faster manner. Most importantly, it helps make the task simpler by minimizing the requirement of building your application from scratch.

Once the developer is done learning a few convention rules like call a class in a certain way or end the name of a foreign field of a table with “_id”, the framework’s backend creates everything by itself, thereby making the code faster, stronger, tastier—as its website suggests.

CakePHP’s advantages and popularity have helped it gain a lot of support from the community—over 7500 stars and 3400+ forks on GitHub, plus a forum, and official as well as unofficial docs. Because of this support, CakePHP developers get motivated to work hard and come up with the latest versions to keep up with the ever-evolving PHP web development ecosystem.

Recently, on 12th April 2019, it announced the first alpha release of CakePHP 4.0.0—Strawberry.

Should You Bake Your Code in CakePHP?

Undeniably, CakePHP is one of the most popular frameworks for PHP development. It is an extensive, feature-rich framework. Besides that, it helps reduce the development costs and quickly build applications, using code generation and other scaffolding features.

The pillars, discussed in the blog, on which CakePHP stands, reveal that CakePHP is more ‘Strict’ than other PHP-based frameworks.  ‘Strict’ here, it implies that a user is ‘forced’ to follow a certain way of laying out the code. Therefore, it paves the way for the code base to be more consistent, understandable, and readable.

Rather than allowing a developer to choose how the code should be written, CakePHP development helps the code to be written consistently by following Cake’s conventions, ensuring that the code is well written and applications stand the test of time.