Post idea: Long term, large scales projects with CakePHP

TL;DR, Tell people why and how a RAD framework can compete with the likes of Symfony for larger projects which have a long lifetime.

As we all know CakePHP get's a pretty bad rep in the PHP community and no more so than from the Symfony corner. They love to belittle the framework and regurgitate Uncle Bob. It would be nice to have a bit of a slap-down post about using a RAD framework can be for more than just prototyping.

It would be great for someone with good knowledge of the core to detail some of the software design principles being used in the framework and how you can build large scale commercial and stable applications using CakePHP. So often people look down on CakePHP because they see it as being "magic", "tightly coupled" or "slow". Yeah, we've all heard them spouting this garbage. So why not address it?

I think a post or even a book page which extols the virtues of the framework would be beneficial. Something which advertises the framework, why it's cool, what it does which is cool. I know there are some large scale sites out there using the framework. I know I've built a few which I'd consider reasonably high traffic (eg, 80k unique visitors a month). So it can be done.

I also know that there are plugins, tips, hints and optimisations out there which people have done to help their app. Streamlining the framework by removing all the default routes for example. Making better use of caching. Whatever it might be I would really like to see some Laravel style marketing happening for CakePHP because it is a good framework.

I'd welcome other peoples thoughts and suggestions.

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