There are many open source application development framework which helping developers to save their time by wrting code in minimum amount. Cake php one of the remarkable rapid development framework among those.
Cake php is wrtten in php and designed like Ruby on Rails.
It uses easy design patterns like- Moduled view controller , Association data maping , ORM , Front Controller.It supports with php 4 and 5 versions. With it’s helping stracture developers can finsh their projects in a very low cost. The upcoming Cake php 2.0 version modeled for suooprting PHP 5.2 and PHP 5.3 version. It’s main goal is to make coding more easier and faster.