<s>
CakePHP	B-Language
is	O
an	O
open-source	B-Application
web	B-Application
framework	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
follows	O
the	O
model	O
–	O
view	O
–	O
controller	O
(	O
MVC	O
)	O
approach	O
and	O
is	O
written	O
in	O
PHP	B-Application
,	O
modeled	O
after	O
the	O
concepts	O
of	O
Ruby	B-Application
on	I-Application
Rails	I-Application
,	O
and	O
distributed	O
under	O
the	B-License
MIT	I-License
License	I-License
.	O
</s>
<s>
CakePHP	B-Language
uses	O
well-known	O
software	B-General_Concept
engineering	I-General_Concept
concepts	O
and	O
software	O
design	O
patterns	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
convention	B-Application
over	I-Application
configuration	I-Application
,	O
model	O
–	O
view	O
–	O
controller	O
,	O
active	O
record	O
,	O
association	B-Application
data	I-Application
mapping	I-Application
,	O
and	O
front	O
controller	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
CakePHP	B-Language
started	O
in	O
April	O
2005	O
,	O
when	O
a	O
Polish	O
programmer	O
Michal	O
Tatarynowicz	O
wrote	O
a	O
minimal	O
version	O
of	O
a	O
rapid	O
application	O
development	O
framework	O
in	O
PHP	B-Application
,	O
dubbing	O
it	O
Cake	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
He	O
published	O
the	O
framework	O
under	O
the	B-License
MIT	I-License
license	I-License
,	O
and	O
opened	O
it	O
up	O
to	O
the	O
online	O
community	O
of	O
developers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
December	O
2005	O
,	O
L	O
.	O
Masters	O
and	O
G	O
.	O
J	O
.	O
Woodworth	O
founded	O
the	O
Cake	O
Software	O
Foundation	O
to	O
promote	O
development	O
related	O
to	O
CakePHP	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
One	O
of	O
the	O
project	O
's	O
inspirations	O
was	O
Ruby	B-Application
on	I-Application
Rails	I-Application
,	O
using	O
many	O
of	O
its	O
concepts	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
October	O
2009	O
,	O
project	O
manager	O
Woodworth	O
and	O
developer	O
N	O
.	O
Abele	O
resigned	O
from	O
the	O
project	O
to	O
focus	O
on	O
their	O
own	O
projects	O
,	O
including	O
the	O
Lithium	B-Language
web	I-Language
framework	I-Language
(	O
previously	O
part	O
of	O
the	O
CakePHP	B-Language
project	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Since	O
CakePHP	B-Language
3	O
it	O
has	O
been	O
possible	O
to	O
install	O
plugins	O
using	O
Composer	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
CakePHP	B-Language
ORM	O
(	O
object-relational	B-General_Concept
mapping	I-General_Concept
)	O
is	O
an	O
advanced	O
PHP	B-Application
hybrid	O
of	O
the	O
active	O
record	O
pattern	O
and	O
the	O
data	O
mapper	O
pattern	O
,	O
borrowing	O
core	O
concepts	O
from	O
both	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
CakePHP	B-Language
ORM	O
uses	O
two	O
primary	O
object	O
types	O
,	O
the	O
table	O
class	O
representing	O
database	B-Application
tables	I-Application
,	O
and	O
entity	O
classes	O
representing	O
individual	O
table	B-Application
rows	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Query	O
builder	O
was	O
introduced	O
in	O
CakePHP	B-Language
3	O
as	O
a	O
companion	O
to	O
the	O
new	O
ORM	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
CakePHP	B-Language
router	O
allows	O
for	O
complex	O
HTTP	O
application	O
routing	O
,	O
routing	O
incoming	O
requests	O
to	O
the	O
correct	O
controller	O
and	O
action	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Migrations	O
provide	O
version	B-Architecture
control	I-Architecture
for	O
database	B-Application
schemas	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
greatly	O
simplifies	O
both	O
CakePHP	B-Language
application	O
deployment	O
,	O
but	O
also	O
development	O
in	O
multi-developer	O
teams	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
CakePHP	B-Language
migration	O
tool	O
is	O
based	O
on	O
the	O
Phinx	O
project	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Form	O
builder	O
and	O
validator	O
allows	O
for	O
the	O
programmatic	O
generation	O
of	O
forms	B-General_Concept
that	O
are	O
tied	O
to	O
the	O
model	O
layer	O
for	O
both	O
data	O
types	O
and	O
validation	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
CakePHP	B-Language
Bake	O
is	O
a	O
tool	O
for	O
automatically	O
generating	O
application	O
skeletons	O
and	O
boilerplate	O
code	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
uses	O
a	O
pre-existing	O
database	B-Application
schema	I-Application
to	O
infer	O
the	O
correct	O
data	B-Language
relations	I-Language
and	O
data	O
types	O
and	O
using	O
that	O
to	O
generate	O
a	O
full	O
set	O
of	O
controllers	O
,	O
model	O
object	O
and	O
view	O
templates	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
can	O
generate	O
a	O
basic	O
CRUD	B-General_Concept
application	O
with	O
zero	O
coding	O
.	O
</s>
