CakePHP Alternatives

Apps similar to CakePHP include Laravel, which is free and open source. Other options are Ruby on Rails, Symfony, CodeIgniter and Zend Framework. Software Frameworks like CakePHP are a crowded field, with more than 25 alternatives for Linux, Windows, Mac, self-hosting and the web.

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  1. SingularCore icon
     8 likes

    SingularCore is a fine product powered by Zend Framework that provides instruments to create complex custom solutions where standard CMS’s won’t work or where you need too much customization in popular engines.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
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  2. It is an open source tool that provides a complete architecture for developing PHP applications. Is a framework that uses commonly known enterprise design patterns like MVC, ORM design patterns like Active Record and Repository.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  3. Qcodo icon
     4 likes

    Code Less. Do More.

    The Qcodo Development Framework is an open-source PHP framework that focuses on freeing developers from unnecessary tedious, mundane coding.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  4. Phraw icon
     4 likes

    Phraw, a PHP micro-framework. Phraw is indicated for small web sites and small applications because is fast to learn, fast to bootstrap and fast to serve requests.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
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  5. ClanCats Framework, because your time is precious. HMVC PHP framework.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  6.  3 likes

    Seagull is an object oriented framework written in PHP that focuses on best practices, clean code and reusable components.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  7. PRADO icon
     3 likes

    PRADO is a component-based and event-driven framework for Web application development in PHP 5. PRADO stands for PHP Rapid Application Development Object-oriented.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • PHP
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  8.  2 likes

    Koseven is an elegant, open source, and object oriented HMVC framework built using PHP7, by a team of volunteers. It aims to be swift, secure, and small. Forked from Kohana and updated to work with PHP7.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  9. PHPixie icon
     2 likes

    PHPixie is a modern component-based PHP 7 framework. It is thoroughly tested with high code coverage and provides blazing performance without sacrificing any features. All PHPixie components can also be used standalone and provide a great foundation.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  10. TomP2P icon
     4 likes

    A P2P-based high performance key-value pair storage library.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  11. Laravel Boilerplate provides a very flexible and extensible way of building your custom Laravel applications. It provides Administration Dashboard with Gentelella Admin Theme, Responsive Layout, Bootstrap 3, Font Awesome, and a lot more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Laravel
    • PHP
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  12. SaaSykit icon
     1 like

    SaaSykit is a SaaS starter kit (boilerplate) that comes packed with all components required to run a modern SaaS software.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    Good alternative?
     
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