🆚 CakePHP vs. CodeIgniter
- 📈 CodeIgniter is much more popular than CakePHP.
- 🌎 CodeIgniter is more popular in India, the United States, and Indonesia.
- 🌍 CakePHP is more popular in Japan, Croatia, and Malta.
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About
CakePHP is a rapid development framework for 
PHP that uses MVC, front controller, associative data mapping and active record patterns to help developers build web applications faster.
It includes an ORM and query builder, integrated scaffolding and code generation tools, built-in validation and security against XSS, CSRF, and SQL injections, flexible routing and template helpers, i18n support, caching, and a large plugin ecosystem.
CodeIgniter is an open-source PHP full-stack web framework with small footprint, high performance, and minimal configuration setup.
It includes MVC support, clean URL routing, CSRF and XSS protection, helper libraries for database access, email, sessions, file uploading, and extensive documentation.
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Popularity
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Popularity by country
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Awards
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Japan in the Backend Frameworks category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in Romania in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Vietnam in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Brazil in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in India in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Indonesia in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Bangladesh in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Moldova in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Palestine in the Backend Frameworks category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Vietnam in the Backend Frameworks category.
Popularity by domain category
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Livewire🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.