Started doing CakePHP because of a project I’m taking over. What in the world is that? Dependency injection? Separation of concern? Single responsibility? What did I get myself into…

Programming.

Aka guarantee loss for soul and sanity.

The cake in CakePHP represents yellow cake uranium.

Why uranium? Because your whole stack will meltdown at the most inconvenient time.

Those are the things that destroyed PHP reputation. PHP is fast and easy to write. But using convoluted frameworks slows it down and makes debugging and maintenance very cumbersome. I only use bramus router, and use curl for api access. Less dependencies, the better and faster.