🆚 CakePHP vs. Yii Framework
- 📈 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.
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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.
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.
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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.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Ukraine in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Kazakhstan in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Belgium in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Uzbekistan in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Belarus in the Backend Frameworks category.
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ThinkPHP🗃️ 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 3,406,701 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.