Why CakePHP

Why CakePHP?

CakePHP has several features that make it a great choice as a framework for developing applications swiftly and with the least amount of hassle. Here are a few in no particular order:

1. Active, friendly community

2. Flexible Licensing

3. Compatibility with PHP4 and PHP5

4. Integrated CRUD for database interaction and simplified queries

5. Application Scaffolding

6. Model View Controller (MVC) Architecture

7. Request dispatcher with good looking, custom URLs

8. Built-in Validation

9. Fast and flexible templating (PHP syntax, with helpers)

10. View Helpers for AJAX, Javascript, HTML Forms and more

11. Security, Session, and Request Handling Components

12. Flexible access control lists

13. Data Sanitization

14. Flexible View Caching

15. Works from any web site subdirectory, with little to no Apache configuration involved