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Benjamin
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I'm still looking for ways to speed up development time. I'm going to take a few hours today and review the cake framework. It's appears to be pretty attractive based on what I have read about it. I'm wondering what method's you use to speed up development, and what, if any advantages you have noticed with using the cake, or any other framework.
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cake is a good framework for quick and dirty applications for sure. I'm sure it is capable of creating large applications as well, but you would need to get very familiar with it and really fine tune everything. It does some pretty cool things like automatically associating tables, caching, and it's helpers are killer (html helpers to create forms, links, etc.) The cool thing about the helpers is that they have access to a lot of info about your app, so a link set up like this:

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echo $html->link('action/view');
Would actually produce a working link.
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I'd personally recomend PRADO. I haven't looked at cake in awhile, but I do remember it only being half completed the last time I looked at it.

Generally I have so much code sitting around that most projects I do involved 60% of my time in: copy-paste-modify to work; the other 40% in writing new code.
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http://www.pradosoft.com/

Prado, while it looks very cool, is much different than any of the other frameworks, and the learning curve probably is a little steeper. I can whip up an application without even knowing anything about cake in a matter of hours. With prado, I would have to learn quite a bit first. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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No, you're right Ninja. Unless you come from a .NET background, in which case the templating style associated with Prado will make you feel right at home.
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