CakePHP vs Zend Framework comparison

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Overview
CakePHP a web development framework running on PHP 7.1, offering a flexible database access layer and a powerful scaffolding system and requiring less code while building web applications. CakePHP provides a basic organizational structure that covers class names, filenames, database table names, and other conventions. While the conventions take some time to learn, by following the conventions CakePHP provides you can avoid needless configuration and make a uniform application structure that makes working with various projects simple. CakePHP comes with built-in tools for input validation, CSRF protection, Form tampering protection, SQL injection prevention, and XSS prevention, helping you keep your application
Zend Framework is an open source framework for developing web applications and services using PHP. Zend Framework uses 100% object-oriented code and utilises most of the features of PHP, namely namespaces, late static binding, lambda functions and closures.
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CakePHP is ranked 3rd in PHP Frameworks while Zend Framework is ranked 2nd in PHP Frameworks. CakePHP is rated 0.0, while Zend Framework is rated 9.0. On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zend Framework writes "We consolidated PHP code into a single set of modules and libraries but it needs integration improvements from the security perspective". CakePHP is most compared with Yii Framework, Laravel PHP Framework and Symfony, whereas Zend Framework is most compared with Laravel PHP Framework and Symfony.

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