What is The Difference Between PHP CakePHP and PHP Zend

PHP

PHP is a open source, interpreted and object-oriented scripting language i.e. executed at server side. It is used to develop web applications (an application i.e. executed at server side and generates dynamic page).

• PHP is a server side scripting language.
• PHP is an interpreted language, i.e. there is no need for compilation.
• PHP is an object-oriented language.
• PHP is an open-source scripting language.
• PHP is simple and easy to learn language.

PHP Features:

There are given many features of PHP.

• Performance: Script written in PHP executes much faster then those scripts written in other languages such as JSP & ASP.
• Open Source Software: PHP source code is free available on the web, you can developed all the version of PHP according to your requirement without paying any cost.
• Platform Independent: PHP are available for WINDOWS, MAC, LINUX & UNIX operating system. A PHP application developed in one OS can be easily executed in other OS also.
• Compatibility: PHP is compatible with almost all local servers used today like Apache, IIS etc.
• Embedded: PHP code can be easily embedded within HTML tags and script.

If you read my blog post about the programming languages you need to learn as a CSE student, php is one of them. You can find out more in the post below:

CakePHP

CakePHP, on the other hand, is an open source web application framework. A framework is a collection of pre-written objects and code. CakePHP is a framework based on and for the PHP language. It was first released in April 2005 by Michal Tatarynowicz. He had written a minimal version of a Rapid Application Framework in PHP modeled after the concepts of Ruby on Rails. It is since available as an open source framework under the MIT License..

Cakephp  features:-

• Strict naming conventions
• Better validation then codeigniter
• Has not good manual as compared to codeigniter
• Code generation is quicker but harder to understand
• Have authentication in its core
• Supports ORM
• Bake tool for creating models, views and controllers
• Validation occurs in model i.e. before and during saving etc.
• XML-RPC is used as web service
• Looks similar to ruby on rails
• Harder to learn for newbie as compared to codeigniter
• Forums are active and you will get quicker response

PHP Zend

Zend Framework is an open source, object oriented web application framework forPHP 5. Zend Framework is often called a 'component library', because it has many loosely coupled components that you can use more or less independently.

PHP Zend features:

• It is object orinted
• Every component and architecture is independent
• MVC supports templates and layouts
• Supports multiple databases
• High performance
• and many more