Tag: cakephp

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CakePHP is an open source web application framework for producing web applications written in PHP. It is written in PHP, modeled after the concepts of Ruby on Rails, and distributed under the MIT License.

CakePHP started in 2005, when Ruby on Rails was gaining popularity. The community has since grown and spawned several sub-projects. CakePHP is not a port of Ruby on Rails to PHP, but appropriates many of its useful concepts.

The Mambo Foundation announced in 2007 that it would utilize the CakePHP framework for future versions of its widely used content management system, calling CakePHP a "solid choice and certainly one of the top frameworks available today."

Features of CakePHP

Like Rails, CakePHP makes it easier for the user to interface with the database with active records. It also encourages use of the model-view-controller architectural pattern.

Compatible with PHP4 and PHP5
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
Data sanitization
Security, session, and request handling components
View caching
Unit testing using the SimpleTest framework, available in CakePHP version 1.2

From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CakePHP

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