Cake 1.0 Release

Posted on May 2, 2006 by Gerard

Congratulations to the CakePHP community! Version 1.0 is the first stable release by the community. CakePHP has also rolled out a great looking design [ www.cakephp.org ]. We have been following CakePHP for a few months now and are very excited to start developing our PHP applications based on this framework.

Cake is a rapid development framework for PHP which uses commonly known design patterns like ActiveRecord, Association Data Mapping, Front Controller and MVC. Our primary goal is to provide a structured framework that enables PHP users at all levels to rapidly develop robust web applications, without any loss to flexibility.

Cake is taking a simalar approach to MVC web development for PHP as RoR has accomplished for Ruby. In my opinion Cake is the only publicy (and FREE!!) distributed MVC framework written in PHP that compares to Ruby on Rails.

Update: No longer using the Cakephp framework.

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    Originally I wanted to start learning about Ruby on Rails, but the main problems were that a) I didn’t fancy the idea of learning a new language b) my host didn’t support Ruby. So I started looking around for a PHP equivalent and I found Cake, when it still was in pre-alpha. Although Cake is NOT a Rails clone, I think it succeeded in making PHP programming more structured and (MUCH) faster.