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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.

• 1.2.5 Stable
• download: 1.3-alpha
• read the announcement
• view the changelog
• discover more hot features

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Hot Features

• No Configuration - Set-up the database and let the magic begin
• Extremely Simple - Just look at the name...It's Cake
• Active, Friendly Community - Join us #cakephp on IRC. We'd love to help you get started
• Flexible License - Distributed under the MIT License
• Clean IP - Every line of code was written by the CakePHP development team
• Best Practices - covering security, authentication, and session handling, among the many other features
• OO - Whether you are a seasoned object-oriented programmer or a beginner, you'll feel comfortable

Learn

• The Cookbook (official docs)
• Screencasts
• CakePHP cheatsheet
• 1.2 Blog Tutorial
• IBM: Cook Up Websites Fast (5 part series)
• IBM: Build A Production Wiki (5 part series)
• CakePHP Book Store

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Interact

The CakePHP community is vast and interacts in numerous ways. The Google Group is a great forum for posting questions and comments. There are also many in the irc channel, #cakephp on irc.freenode.net, including the core developers and long time community members.

Latest posts on the google group

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