CakePHP is an open source web application framework for producing web applications. 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.
In October 2009, Garrett Woodworth ...
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CakePHP is an open source web application framework for producing web applications. 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.
In October 2009, Garrett Woodworth and developer Nate Abele resigned from the project to focus on Lithium (PHP Framework), a code base originally being developed at the CakePHP project but was not agreed upon by the entire development team as a replacement for CakePHP. The remaining development team continued to focus on the original roadmap that was previously defined.
Like Rails, CakePHP makes it easier for the user to interface with the database with the Active record pattern. It also encourages use of the model-view-controller architectural pattern. Upcoming version 2.0 of...
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