I can’t start my day without Coffee. I can’t live my day without Cake ! And now they have a stable Cake !!!

Yes, the long-awaited Cake PHP 1.0 is out ! Not only its the first official stable release, but also its boosted with lots of bugfixes and all the great cake features. Also, the website of Cake PHP is revamped with the new design - looks simple yet appealing. Thanks to Armando Sosa for his contribution.

People, if you havent already tasted Cake, its the best time to start so ! Don’t miss the yummy bites !! Go get it !!!

My search for the right framework has ended today, when I discovered the Cake PHP framework ! By right framework, I am meaning the one:

• having an easy learning curve,
• facilitating the MVC pattern,
• seperating display and business logic in a ‘meaningful’ way, and
• with which making web apps is possible in considerably low time.

Well, to my surprise, Cake gives me all these and goes beyond my expectation. Maybe becauz the idea of Cake has come from the growingly popular Ruby on Rails. Nevertheless, to me the most important thing is that I am not going to switch to other language frequently (as I’ve built my competency in PHP for some time).

So, whats so special with Cake ? Lemme tell you some:

• MVC pattern
• Almost zero configuration (you just need to tell you db config to start)
• Various application helper (Html, JavaScript, Date, etc)
• Support for Ajax (using the famous prototype library)
• In-built validation
• Access Control Lists (ACL)
• Security, sanitization, session handler, etc.
• A very active community !

I hope you’re impressed enough. No, no….don’t take it as other frameworks you’ve tried already….test it out !! You wont regret.

Ok, cya you in the kitchen !! We’re baking yummy cakes !