THE NEWBIE’S INTRODUCTION TO CAKEPHP

WHY CAKEPHP?
Ever since the boys at 37 Signals (www.37signals.com) released Ruby on Rails as an open source
project, the world of web development has been moving more toward a framework-based solu-
tion for creating dynamic websites. Gone are the days of individually scripting each and every
function the website will utilize. Instead, developers are using a bundled package of scripts that
perform a series of functions designed speci!cally for web development.
Because Rails set the standard for web-based frameworks, teams of developers have been creating
clones of Rails for various languages: Turbogears for Python; Symfony, PHP on Trax, Zend and
many others for PHP; and Catalyst for Perl—and on and on. With so many options out there,
why choose CakePHP (or, for short, Cake) for your web project?

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