What is CakePHP? Why use it?
CakePHP is a free, open-source, rapid developmentframework for PHP. It's a foundational structure for programmers to create web applications. Our primary goal is to enable you to work in a structured and rapid manner–without loss of flexibility.
CakePHP takes the monotony out of web development. It provides you with all the tools you need to get started coding and what you need to get done: the logic specific to your application. Instead of reinventing the wheel every time you begin a new project, install CakePHP with Composer and get started with the logic of your application.
CakePHP has an active developer team and community, bringing great value to the project. In addition to keeping you from wheel-reinventing, using CakePHP means your application's core is well tested and is being constantly improved. CakePHP 2 is no longer developed by the CakePHP project; the Piece of Cake 2 fork keeps it tested and running on current PHP versions.
Here's a quick list of features you'll enjoy when using CakePHP:
- Active, friendly Cakephp Official Communities
- Flexible licensing
- Compatible with PHP 8.0 to 8.5
- Integrated CRUD for database interaction
- Application scaffolding
- Code generation with the Bake plugin
- MVC architecture
- Request dispatcher with clean, custom URLs and routes
- Built-in validation
- Fast and flexible templating (PHP syntax, with helpers)
- View helpers for AJAX, JavaScript, HTML forms and more
- Email, cookie, security, session, and request handling Components
- Flexible ACL
- Data sanitization
- Flexible caching
- Localization
- Installation and dependency management with Composer
Piece of Cake 2 fork
Bake is no longer part of the core. Install it with composer require --dev pieceofcake2/bake.