Why CakePHP?

It has many features that makes it a great framework for developing applications swiftly and with the least amount of hassle. Here are a few in no particular order:

• Active, friendly community
• Flexible Licensing
• Compatibility with PHP4 and PHP5
• Integrated CRUD for database interaction and simplified queries
• Application Scaffolding
• Model View Controller (MVC) Architecture
• Request dispatcher with good looking, custom URLs
• Built-in Validation
• Fast and flexible templating (PHP syntax, with helpers)
• View Helpers for AJAX, Javascript, HTML Forms and more Security, Session, and Request Handling Components
• Flexible access control lists
• Data Sanitization
• Flexible View Caching
• Works from any web site subdirectory, with little to no Apache configuration involved