Cake PHP Framework

Cake is an open source web application PHP framework, inspired by the concept of Ruby on Rails. The underlying principle is to help PHP developers avoid reinventing the wheel all the time. Pidex is actively using CakePHP framework for rapid and robust web application development. PHP experts at Pidex have developed some successful Web Projects based on CakePHP framework.

Key features of CakePHP

• Compatible with PHP4 and PHP5
• Model, View, Controller (MVC) architecture
• Code generation via Bake
• Integrated CRUD for database and simplified querying
• Request dispatcher with custom URLs
• Templating (PHP syntax with helper methods)
• View helpers for AJAX, Javascript, HTML forms
• Website directory independent
• Built-in validation
• Access control lists (ACL)
• Application scaffolding[4]
• Data sanitization
• Security, session, and request handling components
• View caching

Users of CakePHP

• Users who like to work on Ruby on Rails.
• Users familiar with PHP and don't have time to learn another language.
• Users tired of creating bespoke code to do very similar things.
• Users using shared hosting.
• Users aspiring to get more done in less time.
• Users aspiring to use templating.
• Users who want nice, searchable URLs
• Users who don't want to run things from the command-line
• Users having only one MySQL database (table prefixing is an option)