🆚 CakePHP vs. Yii Framework

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Yii Framework is much more popular than CakePHP.
🌎 Yii Framework is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Russia.
🌎 CakePHP is more popular in Japan, Brazil, and Spain.

Type

Backend framework

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.

Yii is an open-source, object-oriented, component-based MVC PHP web application framework.

It includes an implementation of the Active Record design pattern for database interaction, RESTful API support, multi-tier caching, role-based access control, and Gii, a code generation tool.

Headquarters

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Website

cakephp.org #211,876

yiiframework.com #472,542

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Yii Framework technology is 6 times more popular than CakePHP.

Total websites

Market share

Backend Frameworks

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Yii Framework is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Russia, while CakePHP is more popular in Japan, Brazil, and Spain.

United States

United Kingdom

Russia

Netherlands

Germany

Belgium

Ukraine

Australia

Japan

Switzerland