Cake is a rapid development framework for PHP which uses commonly known design patterns like ActiveRecord, Association Data Mapping, Front Controller and MVC. Our primary goal is to provide a structured framework that enables PHP users at all levels to rapidly develop robust web applications, without any loss to flexibility.

Why use it ?

1. 
   Hot Features:
   
   
   
   • Model, View, Controller Architecture
   
   
   • View Helpers for AJAX, Javascript, HTML Forms and more
   
   
   • Built-in Validation
   
   
   • Application Scaffolding
   
   
   • Application and CRUD code generation via Bake
   
   
   • Access Control Lists
   
   
   • Data Sanitization
   
   
   • Security, Session, and Request Handling Components
   
   
   • Flexible View Caching
   
   
   • And More...
   
   
   
   


2. Active, Friendly Community - Just join our IRC channel to see who's in. We'd love to help you get started.


3. Flexible License - Cake is distributed under the MIT License


4. Clean IP - Every line of code was written by the CakePHP development team


5. Extremely Simple - Just look at the name...It's Cake


6. Rapid Development - Build apps faster than ever before (check out the zZine article)


7. Best Practices - Cake is easy to understand and sets the industry standard in security authentication, and session handling, among other features.


8. OO - Whether you are a seasoned object-oriented programmer or a beginner, you'll feel comfortable


9. No Configuration - Set-up the database and watch the magic begin