CakePHP is an open-source framework for PHP. It is intended to make developing, deploying and maintaining applications much easier. CakePHP is based on a MVC-like architecture that is both powerful and easy to grasp. Models, Views, and Controllers guarantee a strict, but natural separation of business logic from data and presentation layers.

Audience

This tutorial is meant for web developers and students who would like to learn how to develop websites using CakePHP. It will provide a good understanding of how to use this framework.

Prerequisites

Before you proceed with this tutorial, we assume that you have knowledge of HTML, Core PHP, and Advance PHP. We have used CakePHP version 4.0.3 in all the examples.