What is CakePHP?

CakePHP is a framework of open source development. Approach Model-View-Controller follows and is written in PHP, modeled after the concepts of Ruby on Rails, and distributed under the MIT license.

CakePHP is an open-source framework for PHP rapid development. It is a basic structure for programmers to create web applications. Our main goal is to work for you in a quick and structured manner without loss of flexibility.

CakePHP takes the monotony of development. We provide all the tools you need to get started coding what you really need to do: the specific application logic. Instead of the wheel every time you sit down to invent, make a new project re-start a copy of CakePHP and with the real courage of your application.

CakePHP has to bring a development team and community, great importance to the project. In addition, it means to keep reinventing of the wheel, the core of the application well tested with CakePHP and constantly improving.

Here’s a quick list of features you’ll enjoy when using CakePHP:

1. Active, friendly community
2. Flexible licensing
3. Compatible with versions 4 and 5 of PHP
4. Integrated CRUD for database interaction
5. Application scaffolding
6. Code generation
7. MVC architecture
8. Request dispatcher with clean, custom URLs and routes
9. Built-in validation
10. Fast and flexible templating (PHP syntax, with helpers)
11. View Helpers for AJAX, JavaScript, HTML Forms and more
12. Email, Cookie, Security, Session, and Request Handling Components
13. Flexible ACL
14. Data Sanitization
15. Flexible Caching
16. Localization
17. Works from any web site directory, with little to no Apache configuration involved