CakePHP or Not ?

[fab5freddy]

I am trying to learn and understand PHP.

Should i look into using CakePHP ?
Would that make things easier or not ?

thanks!

[memco]

I know very little PHP and am in the process of learning it myself. I couldn't really find a use for CakePHP and felt it was making things more complicated for me. Perhaps you'll have a different experience, but I found it better to work with straight PHP to do what I needed. I'm sure after you've wrestled with it for a while, CakePHP may come in very handy for things you want help doing more easily, but could do just as well without it. Generally, it is recommended that you learn the language before learning to use a specific framework, which I have found to be useful advice.

[Perceptes]

Jumping into CakePHP if you have no experience with PHP itself will be difficult. Whether it's a worthwhile task really depends on how much general programming experience you have and what you're trying to do with it. I actually wrote a blog post on my site a while back that might help you decide: http://www.jimmycuadra.com/blog/view/2-frameworks-do-they-speed-things-up-or-slow-things-down Good luck!

[fab5freddy]

Thanks guys!

[m3kilpat]

If you have no prior programming experience you'd probably want to learn regular PHP first. The CakePHP framework is based on OOP and design patterns which is more advanced stuff. Regular PHP is not so object oriented. I'd say learn the real stuff before using frameworks.