Thursday, August 30, 2007

What is CakePHP?

CakePHP :CakePHP is a free open-source rapid development framework for PHP: a structure of libraries, classes and run-time infrastructure for programmers creating web applications originally inspired by the Ruby on Rails framework.

Why CakePHP?

CakePHP has several features that make it great choice as a framework for developing applications swiftly and with the least amount of hassle:

* Useful core features (for access control lists, AJAX integration, etc.)

* Request dispatcher with good looking, custom URLs

* Compatibility with PHP4 and PHP5

* Works from any website subdirectory, with little to no Apache configuration

* Supplies integrated CRUD for database interaction and simplified queries (including scaffolding)

* Fast and flexible templating (PHP syntax, with helpers)

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