CakePHP is a rapid development framework for PHP that provides an extensible architecture for developing, maintaining, and deploying applications. Using commonly known design patterns like MVC and ORM within the convention over configuration paradigm, CakePHP reduces development costs and helps developers write less code.

F5 Framework consultants have developed F5 WebC as well as F5 Commerce by using CakePHP framework.

Basic Features

• Model - View - Controller Architecture
• Application Scaffolding
• Code generation via Bake
• Helpers for HTML, Forms, Pagination, AJAX, Javascript, XML, RSS and more
• Access Control Lists and Authentication
• Simple yet extensive validation of model data
• Router for mapping urls and handling extensions
• Security, Session, and RequestHandler Components
• Utility classes for working with Files, Folders, Arrays and more