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CakePHP – Easy as Pie?

I am sure that some people have been hearing or seeing the buzzwords CakePHP floating around on the internet and wondering what the big mystery is? No it isn’t Cake made from PHP coders you’ll be happy to learn (maybe you won’t) rather it’s a set of standards that make it easier and faster to write PHP code using OOP (Object Oriented Programming) principles.

What Is CakePHP? - Dispelling the mystery

According to Cake’s official site, CakePHP is “a rapid development framework for PHP” and it uses “commonly known design patterns like ActiveRecord, Association Data Mapping, Front Controller and MVC”. Now if I’ve confused you a little I apologize the basic understanding of this framework is that it allows you, the coder, to develop applications quickly using a standard set of operations.

Some Features of CakePHP…

· 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

Source: http://cakephp.org/

Fabio Cevasco of SitePoint.com has written a brilliant article showcasing some of the basics of CakePHP. Whether you are new to PHP and just interested or a seasoned pro this well worth the read just to gain a little background knowledge about CakePHP because you can apparently have your cake and eat it to (Never mind the pun).