NYCPHP Meetup

[Nate Abele]

> Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:46:44 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Ajai Khattri <ajai at bitblit.net>
> Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] Re: Embrace Dynamic PHP
> To: NYPHP Talk <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
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> On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Nate Abele wrote:
>
>> Enter CakePHP, stage left.  It is at this point far and away the most
>> popular PHP framework:
>>
>> http://www.google.com/trends?q=CakePHP%2C+Symfony%2C+Zend+Framework%2C+Code+Igniter&ctab=0&geo=all&date=ytd&sort=0
>
> So, the number of searches for a product is directly proportional to  
> the
> popularity of that product?
>
> -- 
> Aj.

No, that's simply one way to measure.  You could also go by our number  
of downloads (624,000 since May '06), or the size of our community  
(8,300 on the mailing list and avg. 175 on IRC) which is almost double  
that of Symfony's, and several times that of CodeIgniter's, or the  
fact that we consistently chart significantly higher than both on  
Technorati.  That's about all the metrics I could come up with in a  
few minutes, but I'm sure there are others I'm overlooking.

- Nate