Advantages of CakePHP over other frameworks [closed]

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What makes cakephp to stand ahead of other frameworks. Is this really topping the chart in terms of PHP programming?

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I'd say that the single biggest advantage of Cake over Zend, Symfony, CodeIgnitor, etc., is that it is a rapid development framework. It's got a lot of stuff to help you get a site up and running quickly. If you're doing a minimum viable product, proof-of-concept, or demo piece of web sw, Cake is great!

However, it also has many disadvantages (as others have noted). It's very rigid. Some stuff doesn't work how you'd expect it to. The API changes quite a bit (although after 2.0 I'd expect that to stabilize). And the biggest strike is that it's regularly the slowest of the major frameworks.