Like Rails, CakePHP makes it easier for the user to interface with the database with active records. It also encourages use of the model-view-controller architectural pattern.

• Active, friendly community
• Flexible licensing
• Compatible with PHP4 and PHP5
• Integrated CRUD(Create, Read, Update & Delete) for database and simplified querying
• MVC architecture
• Request dispatcher with clean, custom URLs and routes
• Built-in validation
• Templating (PHP syntax with helper methods)
• View Helpers for AJAX, JavaScript, HTML Forms and more
• Email, Cookie, Security, Session, and Request Handling Components
• Flexible Access Control Lists (ACL)
• Application scaffolding
• Data sanitization
• Flexible caching
• Localization
• Works from any web site directory, with little to no Apache configuration involved

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