* Build Quickly: Use code generation and scaffolding features to rapidly build prototypes. * No Configuration: No complicated XML or YAML files. Just setup your database and you're ready to bake. * Friendly License: CakePHP is licensed under the MIT license which makes it perfect for use in commercial applications. * Batteries Included: The things you need are built-in. Translations, database access, caching, validation, authentication, and much more are all built into one of the original PHP MVC frameworks. * Clean MVC Conventions: Instead of having to plan where things go, CakePHP comes with a set of conventions to guide you in developing your application. * Secure: CakePHP comes with built-in tools for input validation, CSRF protection, Form tampering protection, SQL injection prevention, and XSS prevention, helping you keep your application safe & secure.

◾Full HMVC implementation ◾ ViewModels to get the View-specific logic out of your Views and Controllers ◾ Route directly to closures ◾Extend or replace Core classes without rewriting a single line of code. ◾ Package additional functionality into Packages. ◾ Create modular application by dividing it up into Application Modules. ◾Input filtering ◾ URI filtering ◾ XSS filtering ◾ Output encoding ◾ CSRF token protection ◾ SQL injection prevention ◾ A secure Auth framework ◾Code generation, Scaffolding and Admin generation. ◾ Run Database Migrations. ◾ Interactive Debugging. ◾ Tasks - useful for cron type activities like importing data and other batch or background operations. ◾ Controller_Template - Add simple page templating functionality to your controllers. ◾ Controller_Rest - An easy way to create a RESTful API. ◾ Controller_Hybrid - Combine the two features into a single controller. ◾ Model_Crud - Provides all methods for CRUD operations on a single table. ◾ OO way of working with database data and performing CRUD operations. ◾ All normal relationship types: belongs-to, has-one, has-many, many-many ("has and belongs to many"). ◾ Fetch relations of relations of relations of...etc... in one go ("nested relations"). ◾ Cascading saves and deletes for related objects. ◾ Entity Attribute-Value model implementation. ◾ Model extensions that implement: Soft-delete functionality (mark records as deleted instead of actually removing them) Temporal functionality (automatic versioning of records on every update) Nested sets functionality (store hierarchical structures (trees) into a database table) ◾ Use Observers to update/process the objects instances, for example to validate before saving or to auto-update an updated_at property. ◾ Included simple authentication for users, groups & basic ACL. ◾ Or full-featured RBAC authentication based on ORM if you need it. ◾ Secure hashing function for passwords included (PBKDF2). ◾ OAuth integration for social media authentication. ◾ Default interface for any Auth library in FuelPHP.