CakePHP is a free, open-source, model-view-controller rapid development
framework for PHP. It's a foundational structure for programmers to create
web applications. CakePHP reduces development costs and helps developers
write less code, making it swiftly and with the least amount of hassle:

* Compatible with versions 4 and 5 of PHP
* Integrated CRUD for database interaction
* Application scaffolding
* Code generation
* MVC architecture
* Request dispatcher with clean, custom URLs and routes
* Built-in validation
* Fast and flexible templating (PHP syntax, with helpers)
* View Helpers for AJAX, JavaScript, HTML Forms and more
* Email, Cookie, Security, Session, and Request Handling Components
* Flexible ACL
* Data Sanitization
* Flexible Caching
* Localization
* Works from any web site directory, with little to no Apache configuration
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