On Cake’s website you can read a kind of summarizing this work: http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/the-gift-of-1-2-final

That approach lead me to my first framework based on PHP which is CakePHP. I’m in the middle of my first project with it. Some time it took me a concept of philosophy of Cake, but was worth. In addition, this was not particularly difficult, because the framework is very clear (at least I gave such an impression).

What exactly CakePHP is? I’ll quote the authors:

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.

Session Management, the creation of forms, CRUD database opearations – these and other issues have to resolve any programmer writing Web applications. And in principle no longer exists, or has these problems, much less, because many of them resolves CakePHP.

Cake’s big advantage (and probably not only this framework) is a file-naming convention, classes and the directory structure suggested by the authors. This allows you to easily find up in the draft.

I don’t like in Cake the fact that the authors hold compatibility with PHP4. This is a version of PHP already really outdated. I hope that version 2.x Cake will only support PHP5.