🆚 CakePHP vs. Symfony
- 📈 Symfony is much more popular than CakePHP.
- 🌍 Symfony is more popular in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
- 🌎 CakePHP is more popular in Japan, Brazil, and India.
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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.
Symfony is an open-source PHP web application framework and a set of reusable components designed to speed up the development and maintenance of web applications using best practices and high modularity.
It features over 50 decoupled packages for routing, templating, dependency injection, form validation, security, console tools, and internationalization.
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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.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Austria in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Switzerland in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Mongolia in the Backend Frameworks category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in France in the Backend Frameworks category.
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- 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.