Im reading the laravel docs and watching some tutorials, everyone seems to be in love with it's simplicity and elegance but i just don't see it. Everything is 5x times more complicated than cake IMO, am i missing something?
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Im reading the laravel docs and watching some tutorials, everyone seems to be in love with it's simplicity and elegance but i just don't see it. Everything is 5x times more complicated than cake IMO, am i missing something?
I don’t think you’re missing anything. I think both have their good and bad sides.
The Blade templating in Laravel is really popular and does work well, and I think is a little quicker to develop with than CTPs. CakePHP is definitely a lot more logical for writing controllers and it’s really good at ORM. Personally I think the documentation can be a little better especially when doing something a bit different, like your own authentication. However Laravel has really good support for a lot of stuff, like REST.
Both are pretty good, I’m definitely no fanatic about either, but I definitely do prefer CakePHP personally 🙂
Well, any system you’re not used to is going to seem 5x as complicated as a system you’ve been for a long time. That said, Laravel does have some distinct differences from CakePHP. It’s much more similar to Cake 3 than it is Cake 2, though, so if you’re comparing it to Cake 2 you’re comparing oranges and apples.
Some of the features of Laravel can be implemented in CakePHP, [such as dotenv support](https://github.com/bkeepers/dotenv), which I’m working on a plugin/module for. I’ll put something out when it’s less of a scattered mess.